Policing Narratives and the State of Terror

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Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, world politics have increasingly mirrored plots of detective novels, with high-profile criminal investigations that cross multiple borders and the internationalized law enforcement practices associated with the "War on Terror." Policing Narratives and the State of Terror examines the relationship between domestic policing and international policy through an analysis of contemporary popular detective fiction, police procedurals, police autobiography, security reports, and chronicles of domestic spying. Robin Truth Goodman connects these accounts of policing to the changing shape of the contemporary nation-state, marked by the denationalization of labor; commercial and criminal laws that jump borders more quickly than civil law protections; and the replacement of legal precedent by unrepeatable, exceptional executive decisions. Working at the intersection of literature, international law, and globalized commerce, Goodman astutely pinpoints how policing has become an increasingly troublesome instrument of empire, particularly in terms of national sovereignty and the growing numbers of mercenary private security forces.
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. They Came Back to Baghdad

2.From the Feminist Detective to the Security State Hero: Division of Labor and the State of Exception

3. Terrorist Hunter: Walter Mosley, the Urban Plot, and the Terror War

4. The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw

5. Military Literati: Yasmina Khadra and the Veil

Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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Popular culture

Globalization

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Publié par	State University of New York Press
Date de parution	02 juillet 2010
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781438429052
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

They Came Back to Baghdad

From the Feminist Detective to the Security State Hero: Division of Labor and the State of Exception

Terrorist Hunter: Walter Mosley, the Urban Plot, and the Terror War

The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw

Military Literati: Yasmina Khadra and the Veil

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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owe a number of people gratitude for help and inspiration in writing $this book as well as for invaluable editing. First, I extend enormous ap-preciation to super-sleuth Kenneth J. Saltman for combing through the evidence and taking out all the dead bodies. As well, I express many thanks to Ralph M. Berry, Mark Garrett Cooper, Barry J. Faulk, John Marx, and Sophia A. McClennan for helping to go over various drafts and think through the broad outlines of the project. Thanks as well to Nels Pearson and Marc Singer for their important suggestions on chapter 4 and to John Sugg for providing information on chapter 3. I also thank Ron Scapp for keeping the faith. In addition, I credit my colleagues in the English Department at Florida State University for their support, encouragement, and comments on drafted chapters and to the students in the various classes I taught at Florida State, where these ideas and materials were discussed and worked out. In its various stages, the research was funded by the Research Office at Florida State University, the Feminist Research Institute at the University of New Mexico, and the Global Studies Program at the International Institute of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). At UCLA, I thank especially Ron Rogowski, Geoffrey Garrett, Saree Makdisi, Michael Heim, and Françoise Lionnet for their support and encouragement. I also express my gratitude to Masood Raja, Ron Corthell, and the English Department at Kent State University; Drucilla Barker, the Women’s Studies Program, and the English Department at

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the University of South Carolina; and Susan Bordo and the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Kentucky for providing forums, commentary, and support for parts of this research. I also am indebted to Sarah Fryett for being my intrepid Dr. Watson and to Joel Weinbrot for his essential assistance. An earlier version of chapter 3, “Terrorist Hunter: Walter Mosley, the Urban Plot, and the Terror War,” was published inCultural Critique 66 (Spring 2007): 21–57. Lastly, I thank my family and Mona, because every detective needs her hound.

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