Remembering 9/11
Subtitle: terror, trauma and social theory
By: Victor Jeleniewski Seidler
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781137017680
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Social aspects; Psychological aspects; Terrorism; Psychic trauma
Description: Can you remember 9/11 and the impact of the images of the planes flying into the Twin Towers? Tracing cultural memories, Victor Seidler explores an embodied social theory that is alive to fear, loss, vulnerability and mourning, and questions how these narratives reflected a dominant masculinity unprepared to show any sign of weakness. Thinking across the boundaries of individual and cultural trauma, he discusses a psychosocial theory that listens to a diversity of voices shaped by the tragedy. Seidler also engages with questions of Islam, modernity and fundamentalism to analyse the relationship between the East and West, as well as highlighting the neoconservative influences in the wars following 9/11.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: remembering 9/11: terror, trauma and social theory; title: Witnessing terror; title: Terror, shock and mourning; title: Recovering bodies; title: Traumatic spaces; title: Rage and retribution; title: Protest and resistance; title: Communicating terror and trauma; title: Terrorism, war and ethics; title: Modernity, islam and fundamentalisms; title: Islam, civilisations and terror; title: Hatred, global power and terror; title: Freedom, anger and global power; title: Rhetorics of war; title: Conclusions.