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Images of Terror

What We Can and Cant Know about Terrorism

Philip Jenkins

First published 2003 by Transaction Publishers

Published 2017 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jenkins, Philip, 1952-

Images of terror : what we can and cant know about terrorism / Philip Jenkins.

p. cm. -- (Social problems and social issues)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-202-30678-X (hardback : alk. paper) ISBN 0-202-30679-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Terrorism. 2. TerroristsPsychology. 3. Political violence. 4.

Terrorism and mass media. 5. Terrorism-Government policy. 6.

CommunicationSocial aspects. I. Title. II. Series.

HV6431 J46 2002

303.625dc21

2002013178

ISBN 13: 978-0-202-30679-7 (pbk)

CONTENTS

About the Author

Philip Jenkins is Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Among his earlier books are Intimate Enemies and Using Murder.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

As always, I thank my wife Liz Jenkins for all her advice and encouragement. I would also like to thank Kathryn Hume and Patricia Loveless for taking the time to read the manuscript, and offering many valuable suggestions. Finally, my thanks to Richard Koffler, of Aldine de Gruyter, for the help and advice he has given me over the years.

Portions of chapter five originally appeared in my article Under Two Flags: Provocation and Deception in European Terrorism, in Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Journal 11(1989): 275-287.1 am grateful to Frank Cass Publishers for permission to use this material here.

The literature on terrorism was already vast before September 2001, and it has been growing steadily ever since. Thousands of books and articles have explored the issue of terrorism in general, as well as specific terrorist acts and movements, and these topics have attracted the attention of able and distinguished scholars. I have no wish simply to add another drop to that ocean. I wrote this book because of my conviction that sometimes, scholars and journalists accept uncritically the interpretations of terrorism they receive from governments and official agencies. Our perceptions of terrorism are formed by the interaction of bureaucratic agencies, academics and private experts, and the mass media: the images and stereotypes that we are offered do not necessarily reflect objective reality.

Central to my approach is the notion that terrorism, like any other problem, is socially constructed. By that, I certainly do not mean that terrorism is not a

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