CTS and popular culture: New avenues to understand terrorism
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003266709-17" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003266709-17</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
CTS and popular culture: New avenues to understand terrorism
Original language description
The chapter highlights ways in which critical terrorism studies (CTS) can make use of research into popular culture and world politics to expand its research agenda. Rather than merely seeing popular culture as a mirror of world politics, it is important to understand its artefacts as crucial interlocutors of discourses that shape the world we live in. This opens academic research to a more interdisciplinary approach, arguing that political and historical events are always part of a bigger process of negotiation and interpretation. As I point out, popular culture has always occupied an important space for politics, but since September 11, 2001, this role seems evermore amplified. In a similar vein, CTS has always insisted on a more thorough reading of terrorism and counterterrorism as discursive constructions and the war on terror as well as 9/11 as based on notions of fantasy and fiction. CTS sees the world as a complex system through which themes of security and terrorism are circulating at fast speed while having to be explored with caution. This is the point where CTS and popular culture become excellent partners to tackle how we can know about terrorists and terrorism. Ultimately, the chapter concludes that thinking about CTS and popular culture together opens a variety of new and exciting pathways for future research.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Contemporary Reflections on Critical Terrorism Studies
ISBN
978-1-00-326670-9
Number of pages of the result
15
Pages from-to
245-259
Number of pages of the book
320
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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