No go world. How fear is redrawing our maps and infecting our politics 9780520294608, 0520294602

War-torn deserts, jihadist killings, trucks weighted down with contraband and migrants - from the Afghan-Pakistan border

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No go world. How fear is redrawing our maps and infecting our politics
 9780520294608, 0520294602

Table of contents :
List of Figures List of Maps Preface Introduction: Into the Danger Zone PART 1: THE STORY OF THE MAP 1. The Timbuktu Syndrome 2. Remoteness Remapped 3. The Tyranny of Distance Interlude: The Drone, the Web, and the World of Mirrors PART 2: CONTAGION 4. Wolves at the Door 5. The Snake Merchants 6. Where the Wild Things Are Conclusion: Danger Unmapped Acknowledgments Power of Narration, Narration of Power: An Anthropological Appendix Notes Works Cited Index

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