The State and 'Terrorists' in Nepal and Northern Ireland(English, Hardcover, Dixit Priya)

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The State and 'Terrorists' in Nepal and Northern Ireland(English, Hardcover, Dixit Priya) is written by Dixit Priya and published by Manchester University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0719091764 (ISBN 10) and 9780719091766 (ISBN 13).

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.