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100			_aWALSH James _eAuthor
245			_aThe exceptional everyday: _bTerror and the weaponisation of daily life/ _cJames Walsh
260			_c2024
520			_aIn a bid to transform social and political circumstances by instilling outsized fear, terrorists orchestrate atrocities that are unsettling, unanticipated and preclude effective countermeasures. Utilising the critical case of explosive devices – the leading method of ’pure’ terrorism – this article analyses an important, yet underexplored, dimension of this process: the weaponisation of the familiar and everyday. By repurposing ubiquitous, banal artefacts to conceal, manufacture or serve as destructive instruments, terrorists nurture vulnerability, inflict psychic trauma and produce conditions of ontological and social entropy where the surrounding environment appears unstable, corrupted and on the brink of rupture. Rather than a subsidiary dimension of asymmetrical conflict, it is argued that these dynamics are central to terrorism’s organising logic. Accentuating them can, therefore, deepen understanding of the phenomenon’s fearsome effectuation and ability to produce extreme discrepancy between risk and response.
598			_aEVERYDAY LIFE, EXPLOSIVES, FEAR, MATERIAL CULTURE
650			_aBOMBINGS
650			_aFEAR
650			_aPANIC
650			_aPOLITICAL VIOLENCE
773			_gCritical Studies on Terrorism, Volume 17, Number 3, 2024 , Page: 506-529
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2024.2356919 _zClick here for full text
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