Description: Examines the social impact of terror -- how it provokes different responses in perpetrators, victims and observers.
Brief description: Neil Whitehead (1956-2012) was Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. He is co-editor of Terror and Violence (Pluto, 2005).
Review Quotes:
'These cases show that terror was essentially about having no redress either through the courts or through persons occupying positions of influence' - Rene Wadlow, Transnational Perspectives
'Timely, sophisticated and original' - Hastings Donnan, Queen's Belfast