Atomised Terror and Democratic Citizenship
- Authors
- Yi, Joseph
- Issue Date
- Oct-2013
- Publisher
- WILEY-BLACKWELL
- Keywords
- Democratic Citizenship; Individualism; Terror; Tocqueville; Tsarnaev; Welfare State
- Citation
- POLITICAL QUARTERLY, v.84, no.3, pp.388 - 394
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- Journal Title
- POLITICAL QUARTERLY
- Volume
- 84
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 388
- End Page
- 394
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/161853
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2013.12021.x
- ISSN
- 0032-3179
- Abstract
- This essay connects the 2103 Boston Bombings to the dynamics of a highly individualist, modern society. The perpetrators (Tsarnaev brothers) represent an atomized stratum of Americans, disconnected from communal institutions and organizations; socially insignificant men, ready to commit publicized, albeit isolated, acts of violence. With the exception of the World Trade Center, major terrorist attacks in the past two decades have been perpetrated by asocial, isolated individuals. An expansive security and welfare state is an inadequate response to atomized terror and is potentially problematic for our liberties. An approach more consistent with security and freedom is to nurture the rights and responsibilities of democratic citizenship.
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