The World Trade Center and global crisis : critical perspectives / edited by Bruce Kapferer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kapferer, Bruce, editor.

Series:

Critical interventions ; volume 1.

Critical interventions: a forum for social analysis ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

World politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (94 p.)

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Center disaster, and the attention still addressed to it may over the next few years appear disproportionate. But the significance of events is always determined by the social, political, and cultural forces that are articulated through a particular event. The attack of 9/11 was an event waiting to happen, and when it did occur the even itself became a catalyst and impetus for the changing and redirection of global realities. This volume offers provocative assessments of the reaction to the event from

Contents:

THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND GLOBAL CRISIS; CONTENTS; THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND GLOBAL CRISIS; AN EMPIRE OF A CERTAIN KIND; SEPTEMBER 11TH AND AFTER; FROM NINE-ELEVEN TO SEVEN-ELEVEN; GROUND ZERO POINT ONE; HUMANITARIANISM, TERRORISM AND THE TRANSNATIONAL BORDER; ARAB AMERICANS AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF DISSENT; "MY SON IS A FANATIC" OR HOW TO HAVE THINGS BOTH WAYS IN A HERITAGE DEBATE; JUST WARS, CIVILISATION AND EMPIRE IN POSTMODERNITY; SEPTEMBER 11 AND OCTOBER 7; THE NEW LEVIATHAN AND THE CRISIS OF CRITICISM IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

"Originally published in Social analysis, vol. 46"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780857458643

0857458647