This book collection will address the practices, effects, and future of the
paradigm. It will examine the definitions of terrorism; the discursive
constructs unique to the terror war such as 'enemy combatants' and 'moral torture'; the
invested technologies of the terror war; and the counter-publics (such as the
anti-globalization movement and 'human shields') who posit an alternative
set of priorities. In the course of examining the mobilisation of resources in
the terror war, it will ask if there are other pressing realities - such as global
warming, species degradation, over-population, and human rights violations - which are
equally deserving of our terror, and our resources in combating them. What
are the consequences of investing in terror war, over other priorities? How can
'terror' now be thought outside of terrorism?

Drawing on cultural theory, the essays in this book will introduce a range of political,
 legal, artistic and social critiques to a paradigm of 21st century reality: the terror
 war. We are seeking 350-500 word proposals for papers that theorize the following:
We are seeking 350-500 word proposals for papers that theorize the following:

*Rhetorics of terror/war
*Affects of terror/war: biology, psychology
*Raced and gendered subjects of terror/war
*Technologies of terror/war: weaponry, counter-terrorism initiatives
*Economies of terror/war: privatisation of war, sponsored terrorism
*Media: articulating conflict, diplomacy, peace, settlement, endless war
*Border-protection, detention and occupation policies
* Freedoms and counter-terrorism policies
*Art and terror/war
*Film and television after 9/11
*Histories of terror, threat levels, fear
*Government without war
*Anti-globalization and the terror war
*Mourning 9/11
*Ecology after war: planetary futures

Please send your abstract on these and related issues via email to the
editor, Dr Deborah Staines
Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW,
Australia 2109
E: dstaines@scmp.mq.edu.au
W: http://www.ccs.mq.edu.au/staff_dstaines.html

Abstracts due: 20th December 2005