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Terrorism is a word that is thrown around very
loosely by all sorts of people, often by the
biggest terrorists of all. But what is its history
as a concept and how can we make sense of all the
competing meanings? Who stands to gain when the
word is used? Barker challenges common
misconceptions about terrorism and illustrates the
ways in which both terrorism and counter-terrorism
undermine popular politics and democratic space.
Jonathan
Barker is Professor Emeritus in Political Science,
University of Toronto. He is the author of many
books, including Street-Level Democracy:
Political Settings at the Margins of Global
Power (BTL, 1999).
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