9/11 In American Culture

by Denzin, Norman K.; Lincoln, Yvonna S.; Weems, Mary (CON); Giroux, Henry A. (CON); Kellner, Douglas (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780759103498
• ISBN10: 0759103496
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Altamira Pr

Summary

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays--by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others--are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is refreshing, and reflects the varied emotional and critical responses that bring meaning to this cataclysmal event. From the poetic to the personal, the theoretical to the historical, these contributions represent intelligent and reflective responses to crises like 9/11. This unique collection of essays represents a selfless act of sharing by poets and professors who tell us how they made sense of these tragic events, and predicts what the place of the humanities and the social sciences might hold in an age of terror. Lachrymal and elegiac, their words will stay with us for years to come. The articles were originally published in the journals Qualitative Inquiry and Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: 9/11 in American Culture	p. xiii
9/11 as Event: Politics, Democracy and America
"Blood", "Under the World, 9/22/01"	p. 2
Terrorism and the Fate of Democracy After September 11th	p. 4
September 11, Terrorism, and Blowback	p. 9
The Dialectics of Terrorism: A Marxist Response to September 11	p. 21
Cultural Studies, Immanent War, Everyday Life	p. 41
What Relevance Cultural Studies Post-September 11th?	p. 44
9/11 as Narrative, Poetics, and Personal Stories
"One Face in the Crowd," "Aftermath"	p. 50
Bafflement, Terror, the Search for Meaning
Posts Post September 11	p. 52
The Mourning After	p. 55
Grief in an Appalachian Register	p. 63
Listening to the Heartbeat of New York: Writings on the Wall	p. 67
Relationships-Responsibilities, Once Removed and Ever Connected	p. 87
Some Thoughts on Recovery	p. 93
What is Over? Ruminations From One Who Has Already Lived Through Another September 11	p. 95
What Will We Tell the Children?	p. 99
Media Matters
Small World	p. 101
Week Four	p. 104
Drawing a Line in the Fog	p. 107
Policing the Porous: Electronic Civil Disobedience after 9/11	p. 111
Thank the Lord, It's a War to End all Wars ... Or, How I Learned to Suspend Critical Judgment and Love the Bomb	p. 114
Coming Apart at the Seam	p. 117
9/11, Iran, and Americans' Knowledge of the U.S. Role in the World	p. 120
French Fries, Fezzes, and Minstrels: The Hollywoodization of Islam	p. 123
The WTC Image Complex: A Critical View on a Culture of the Shifting Image	p. 129
The Voices of Cultural Studies, Medicine and Interpretive Social Science
After 9/11: Thinking About the Global, Thinking About Postcolonial	p. 134
Working It Through: Interpretive Sociology After 9/11/01	p. 140
Higher Education and September 11th	p. 142
George Bush, Apocalypse Sometime Soon, and the American Imperium	p. 147
The "Axis of Evil," Operation Infinite War, and Bush's Attacks on Democracy	p. 153
September 11 and the Global Implications of Interpretive Inquiry	p. 157
A Time for Butterflies and Salmon	p. 160
The Heart of the Matter	p. 162
September 11, 2001: Changing the Ways of the World	p. 165
Tenets of Terror	p. 168
Alone and Together: A Reflection for Qualitative Inquiry on the Terror Attack	p. 170
Educating Students from Abroad: Possibilities for Peace and Research	p. 172
Living in the Present
War Games	p. 176
Thoughts Beyond Fear	p. 178
Love Survives	p. 180
Take No Chances	p. 188
Show Me a Sign	p. 194
A Walk in the Olive Grove	p. 198
From Sea to Shining Sea: Stories, Counterstories, and the Discourse of Patriotism	p. 201
Fieldnotes from Our War Zone: Living in America During the Aftermath of September Eleventh	p. 204
What Kind of Mother ...? An Ethnographic Short Story	p. 218
Poetry	p. 224
Happy	p. 226
9/11, Who are We?	p. 229
The Death of Ordinariness: Living, Learning, and Relating in the Age of Anxiety	p. 232
Democracy and the Politics of Terrorism: Community, Fear, and the Supression of Dissent	p. 244
It's Your World, I'm Just trying to Explain It: Understanding Our Epistemological and Methodological Challenges	p. 252
9/11 & The Poetics of Complicity: A Love Poem for a Hurt Nation	p. 259
Afterword: Marching Orders for a Divided Nation, Renewed Commitment for an Engaged Social Science	p. 272
Post-9/11 Timeline	p. 277
September 11 Web Resources	p. 281
About the Editors	p. 283
Credits	p. 285
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