{"product_id":"the-theater-of-operations-joseph-masco-9780822357933","title":"The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror","description":"How did the most powerful nation on earth come to embrace terror as the organizing principle of its security policy? In \u003ci\u003eThe Theater of Operations\u003c\/i\u003e, Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's \"balance of terror.\" He shows how, after the attacks of 9\/11, the U.S. global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations. Tracing how specific aspects of emotional management, existential danger, state secrecy, and threat awareness have evolved as core aspects of the American social contract, Masco draws on archival, media, and ethnographic resources to offer a new portrait of American national security culture. Undemocratic and unrelenting, this counterterror state prioritizes speculative practices over facts, and ignores everyday forms of violence across climate, capital, and health in an unprecedented effort to anticipate and eliminate terror threats-real, imagined, and emergent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Masco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822357933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822357933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015","brand":"Joseph Masco","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086974857471,"sku":"9780822357933","price":139.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_98c028d6-054f-4771-93fa-4bb93465da42.jpg?v=1769097578","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-theater-of-operations-joseph-masco-9780822357933","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}