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    Fear, Anxiety and the State of Terror

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    Authors
    Aly, Anne
    Green, L.
    Date
    2010
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Aly, Anne and Green, Lelia. 2010. Fear, Anxiety and the State of Terror. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 33 (3): pp. 268-281.
    Source Title
    Studies in Conflict and Terrorism
    DOI
    10.1080/10576100903555796\
    ISSN
    1057610X
    School
    School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15003
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    Abstract

    The 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon marked the advent of an unprecedented preoccupation with terrorism. Although Australia's actual terrorist risk profile remains marginal in comparison with other mortality risks, in times of crisis, the reasoned negotiation of risk is marginalised. Drawing on the findings of qualitative research, this article offers an analysis of how Australians are responding to the threat of terrorism embodied in a developing discourse of the war on terror and how they construct their perceptions of terrorist risk. The findings implicate community fear as a factor that should be considered in the development of counter terrorism strategies that emphasize community engagement as a mechanism for challenging radicalisation in democratic states.

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