At War with Metaphor: Media, Propaganda, and Racism in the War on Terror. Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008. 244 pp.

Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills, who teach sociology and English at Canada’s Mount Allison University, are commited to raising the level of public understanding about the role that media play in bringing people into and through a seemingly endless string of wars. Although this book is focused primarily on U.S. media constructions of the so-called “War on Terror,” its emphasis on the role that metaphor plays in the strategic “othering” of countless enemies helps to establish the historical roots of this discursive practice. [Read more...]