Browsing by Subject "Fear"
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Terror as potentiality - the affective rhythms of the political
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Publisher and Date:(Routledge Journals, 2018)The paper addresses the ways in which the cultural, the affective and the political intersect, counter and/or feed upon one another in the context of contemporary terror. Initially, building upon Machiavelli and Hobbes, we deal with the political significance of terror (and the fear it provokes), emphasizing its potentiality, which inscribes future within the present. Then we turn to an analysis of terror in the prism of securitization. Terror, in this respect, amounts to de-materialization (the ...
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The Only Thing We Have to Fear: Post 9/11 Institutionalization of In-security [Korkmamız gereken tek şey: 11 Eylül sonrasında güvensizliğin kurumsallaşması]
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Publisher and Date:(Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği, 2012)During the last decade billions of dollars have been spent to increase security measures in the United States. New institutions including a department for homeland security have been established new security tools have been developed and surveillance of Americans has been increased. However despite the creation of 'safety zones' neither the level of the Americans' feeling of security from further terrorist attacks nor their confidence in the ability of US governments to prevent attacks has seen ...
