Uli Linke is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rochester Institute of Technology in the US. She is the co-editor of Cultures of Fear.Danielle Taana Smith is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at RIT. She is the co-editor of Cultures of Fear (Pluto, 2009).

• Acknowledgments 1. Fear: a conceptual framework by Uli Linke and Danielle Taana SmithPart One: Cultures of Fear2. The New War against Terror by Noam Chomsky3. Engineering Ruins and Affect by Joseph Masco4. Terrorism and the Politics of Fear by David L. 5. Welcome to the Desert of the Real by Slavoj ŽižekPart Two: States of Terror6. Human Rights and Complex Emergencies by Lucia Ann McSpadden and John R. MacArthur 7. Speechless Emissaries by Liisa H. Malkki8. Trauma and Vulnerability During War by Doug Henry 9. The Violence of Humanitarianism by Miriam Ticktin Part Three: Zones of Violence 10. Gender, Terrorism, and War by Susan J. Brison11. The Continuum of Violence by Cynthia Cockburn12. Child Soldiers by Julia Dickson-Gómez13. Girls Behind the (Front) Lines by Carolyn Nordstrom14. On the Run by Solrun Williksen Part Four: Intimacies of Suffering 15. War and Sexual Violence by Elisabeth Jean Wood16. Militarizing Women's Lives by Cynthia Enloe17. The Political Economy of Rape by Meredeth Turshen18. On the Torture of Others by Susan SontagPart Five: Normalizing Terror19. Cultural Appropriations of Suffering by Arthur Kleinman and Joan Kleinman20. The Biopolitics of Disposability by Henry A. Giroux21. Empire of Camps by Nicholas MirzoeffIndex