Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions

ISBN-13: 9780367887193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 150 str.

Jenifer Chao

Opis

This book offers a fresh account of the enduring cultural legacies of the 9/11 terror attacks and the global war on terror through the lens of cultural resistance. It assesses the intersecting ways that popular culture has been deployed as oppositional practice in the post-9/11 context.

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Spis treści

1: Timely convergence: 9/11, resistance, and popular culture.

2: A New Target of Resistance: Rancière’s paradigm of the sensible

3: An American Tale from the Margins: Decentring 9/11 Narratives

4: Restaging the War on Terror and Nationhood: Political Rap’s Sonic Resistance

5: Oppositional Banality: Watching Ordinary Muslims in Little Mosque on the Prairie

6: Faces of the Enemy: Taliban Fighters in a Photography Studio

Conclusion

O autorze

Jenifer Chao is a Lecturer in the Leicester Media School at De Montfort University. Her research is situated at the confluence of cultural analysis, in particular visual culture, and International Relations. It focuses on the diverse ways that politics and aesthetics converge – most often with oppositional intentions – to address issues such as identity, globalization and terrorism. Her research articles have appeared in NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies and Media, War & Conflict.