Shell shocked: the social response to terrorist attacks

What is it that leaves us shell shocked in the face of the massacres carried out in New York on 9/11 or in Paris on 13 November 2015? How are we to explain the intensity of the reaction to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo? Answering these questions involves trying to understand what a society goes throu...

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Main Author: Truc, Gérôme (Author)
Contributors: Brown, Andrew (Translator)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Medford, MA, USA Polity [2018]
In:Year: 2018
Edition:English edition
Online Access: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
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Cultural Pluralism
Entwicklung
Erde
Gesellschaft
Politische Mobilisierung
Reaktion
Solidarität
Terrorism > Psychological aspects
Terrorism > Social aspects
Terrorismus
Terrorismus > Pluralistische Gesellschaft > Politische Sprache > Solidarität > Massenmedien > Kollektives Verhalten > Elfter September > Geschichte 2001-2016
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