911-A Public Emergency?

by Shohat, Ella; Martin, Randy

• ISBN13: 9780822365532
• ISBN10: 0822365537
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Since September 11, public discourse has often been framed in terms of absolutes: an age of innocence gives way to a present under siege, while the United States and its allies face off against the Axis of Evil. This special issue of Social Text aims to move beyond these binaries toward thoughtful analysis. The editors argue that the challenge for the Left is to develop an antiterrorism stance that acknowledges the legacy of U.S. trade and foreign policy as well as the diversity of the Muslim faith and the dangers presented by fundamentalism of all kinds.Examining the strengths and shortcomings of area, race, and gender studies in the search for understanding, this issue considers cross-cultural feminism as a means of combating terrorism; racial profiling of Muslims in the context of other racist logics; and the homogenization of dissent. The issue includes poetry, photographic work, and an article by Judith Butler on the discursive space surrounding the attacks of September 11. This impressive range of contributions questions the meaning and implications of the events of September 11 and their aftermath.Contributors. Muneer Ahmad, Meena Alexander, Lopamudra Basu, Judith Butler, Zillah Eisenstein, Stefano Harney, Randy Martin, Timothy Mitchell, Rosalind Morris, Fred Moten, Sandrine Nicoletta, Yigal Nizri, Jasbir Puar, Amit Rai, Ella Shohat, Ban Wang

Table of Contents

911---A Public Emergency?
Brent Edwards
Stefano Harney
Randy Martin
Timothy Mitchell
Fred Moten
Ella Shohat
Introduction: 911---A Public Emergency?	1	(8)
Randy Martin
Ella Shohat
Fragment on Kropotkin and Giuliani	9	(12)
Stefano Harney
Lyric in a Time of Violence	21	(10)
Meena Alexander
The Poet in the Public Sphere: A Conversation with Meena Alexander	31	(8)
Lopamudra Basu
Exit	39	(4)
Sandrine Nicoletta
Cloud Bench	43	(2)
Yigal Nizri
The Cold War, Imperial Aesthetics, and Area Studies	45	(22)
Ban Wang
Area Studies, Gender Studies, and the Cartographies of Knowledge	67	(12)
Ella Shohat
Feminisms in the Aftermath of September 11	79	(22)
Zillah Eisenstein
Homeland Insecurities: Racial Violence the Day after September 11	101	(16)
Muneer Ahmad
Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots	117	(32)
Jasbir K. Puar
Amit S. Rai
Theses on the Questions of War: History, Media, Terror	149	(28)
Rosalind C. Morris
Explanation and Exoneration, or What We Can Hear	177	(12)
Judith Butler
The New International of Decent Feelings	189
Fred Moten