Author(s): Richard Jackson, Eamon Murphy, Scott Poynting
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 257
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction: Terrorism, the state and the study of political terror......Page 16
1 State terrorism in the social sciences: Theories, methods and concepts......Page 27
2 Darfur’s dread: Contemporary state terrorism in the Sudan......Page 43
3 State terrorism and the military in Pakistan......Page 63
4 Israel’s other terrorism challenge......Page 83
5 ‘We have no orders to save you’: State terrorism, politics and communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat, 2002......Page 101
6 The politics of convenient silence in southern Africa: Relocating the terrorism of the state......Page 119
7 Revenge and terror: The destruction of the Palestinian community in Kuwait......Page 139
8 Winning hearts and mines: The Bougainville crisis, 1988–90......Page 156
9 Paramilitarism and state terror in Colombia......Page 178
10 ‘We are all in Guantánamo’: State terror and the case of Mamdouh Habib......Page 196
11 From garrison state to garrison planet: State terror, the War on Terror and the rise of a global carceral complex......Page 211
12 The deterrence logic of state warfare: Israel and the Second Lebanon War, 2006......Page 228
Conclusion: Contemporary state terrorism – towards a new research agenda......Page 243
Index......Page 255
