Citation

Kellner D. Cult. Politics 2012; 8(1): 1-43.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Duke University Press)

DOI

10.1215/17432197-1571967

PMID

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Abstract

In studies of the spectacle of terror in Norway and the UK riots in summer 2011, I highlight the roles of media spectacle and crises of masculinity in these eruptions of social violence, although I suggest multicausal explanation and do not wish to offer reductive analyses. The study breaks with a tendency of US and other Western media that associate terrorism with al-Qaeda and Islamic jihad and argues that there are many branches of domestic terrorism and eruptions of societal violence, two examples of which I explore in this study.

Language: en