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

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Chao, Jenifer Chao
• Assisted by: Matt Davies (Editor of the series), Kyle Grayson (Editor of the series), Simon Philpott (Editor of the series), Christina Rowley (Editor of the series), Jutta Weldes (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138710887
• ISBN: 978-1-138-71088-7
• No. of pages: 150
• Series: Popular Culture and World Politics; Popular Culture and World Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; History, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, The arts: general issues, Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Political science & theory, Humanities, Political science and theory, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc, The arts: general topics