Public Spaces, Private Lives
Subtitle: Democracy Beyond 9/11
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: December 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780742525269
Subjects: Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; Sociology - General; Social Science; Sociology; USA; General; Social Psychology; Non-Classifiable
Description: "While many of the essays in this book were written before 9/11, they point to a number of important issues such as the commercialization of public life, the stepped up militarization, racial profiling, and the threat to basic civil liberties that have been resurrected since the terrorist attacks. Public Spaces, Private Lives serves to legitimate the claim that there is much in America that has not changed since 9/11. Rather than a dramatic change, what we are witnessing is an intensification and acceleration of the contradictions that threatened American democracy before the tragic events of 9/11. Hence, Public Spaces, Private Lives offers a context for both understanding and critically engaging the combined threats posed by the increase in domestic militarization and a neoliberal ideology that substitutes market values for those democratic values that are crucial to rethinking what a vibrant democracy would look like in the aftermath of September 11th."--