A critically acclaimed analysis of anti-Muslim racism from the sixteenth to the twenty-first
centuries, in a fully revised and expanded second edition In this incisive account, leading …

In this provocative and necessary book, Robert K. Beshara uses psychoanalytic discursive
analysis to explore the possibility of a genuinely anti-colonial critical psychology. Drawing …

Since joining Twitter in 2014, the CIA has used social media to show an uncharacteristically
humorous side to an institution more commonly associated with espionage and secrecy. In …

This article is about how national security culture sets out, in raced, gendered, and classed
terms, to prepare the US public to take up their role as citizens of empire. The cultural …

The Bosnian war of 1992-1995 was one of the most brutal conflicts to have erupted since the
end of the Second World War. But although the war occurred in'Europe's backyard'and …

The first decade of the twenty-first century has been marked by the decisive entry into our
media landscape of the so-called global war on terror, with countless films and TV series …

The 21st century resurgence of the political thriller genre was informed by two factors: the
post 9/11 geo-politics and the new global landscape of film and television. Tehran (Kan …

The film Black Hawk Down (2001) is based on the Battle of Mogadishu (also known as the
“Black Hawk Down” incident), a US military intervention in the 1993 Somali Civil War. The …

In this chapter, we explore the role films play in geographies of war-making and
peacebuilding. In particular, we examine the uncanny ways the military-entertainment …

The themes of terrorism and counter-terrorism have infused the America media's cultural
production for several decades. These popular culture products were designed first for …