The State and ‘Terrorists’ in Nepal and Northern Ireland

The Social Construction of State Terrorism

Priya Dixit author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:1st Jul '15

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The State and ‘Terrorists’ in Nepal and Northern Ireland cover

This book compares the use of 'terrorism' by states in the Global North (Britain in Northern Ireland) and South (Nepal), examining particular events over time. As such, it questions conventional understandings that states cannot be 'terrorists' and that post '9/11' terrorism is new. It does so by outlining how states have used the label of 'terrorism' to establish a specific 'counterterrorist' identity for themselves and by indicating how similar strategies of representation were used by the British and Nepali states while labeling others as 'terrorist'. Because it draws on rhetorical analysis, discursive psychology and critical security studies to analyze the politics of labelling, it is expected this book will be useful to a wide range of readers from political science, International Relations, terrorism studies and also media, cultural and area studies.

ISBN: 9780719091766

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244 pages