What is a network? Why is terror a network?
What is the difference between terror in solid modernity and liquid modernity.
Discuss: ‘Terrorism is the dark side of globalization’ (Colin Powell, quoted in John Urry’s article, the reading for Week 2).
The reading (J Urry):
What does John Urry mean by ‘war as theater’ (p. 64)?
What is the significance of ‘fluidity,’ ‘flows’ and ‘relationality’ in understanding contemporary terror?
In what sense is the social world ‘materially heterogeneous’?
McWorld versus Cihad – what is the significance of this polarization in the contemporary world?
