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Informationen zum Autor Bruce Kapferer is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He has held academic positions in Zambia, Manchester, Adelaide, London, and Queensland and carried out extensive fieldwork in Zambia, Sri Lanka, India, Australia, and South Africa. Klappentext Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Center disaster, and the attention still addressed to it may over the next few years appear disproportionate. But the significance of events is always determined by the social, political, and cultural forces that are articulated through a particular event. The attack of 9/11 was an event waiting to happen, and when it did occur the even itself became a catalyst and impetus for the changing and redirection of global realities. This volume offers provocative assessments of the reaction to the event from a variety of perspectives that will no doubt stimulate the debate on the meaning and consequences of 9/11. Zusammenfassung Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Center disaster, and the attention still addressed to it may over the next few years appear disproportionate. But the significance of events is always determined by the social, political, and cultural forces that are articulated through a particular event. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. The World Trade Center and Global Crisis: Some Critical Perspectives Bruce Kapferer Chapter 2. An Empire of a Certain Kind Marshall Sahlins Chapter 3. September 11th and After Keith Hart Chapter 4. From Nine-Eleven to Seven-Eleven: The Poverty of Interpretation Jonathan Friedman Chapter 5. Ground Zero Point One: On the Cinematics of History Allen Feldman Chapter 6. Humanitarianism, Terror and the Transnational Border Michael Humphrey Chapter 7. Arab Americans and the Criminalization of Dissent Ibrahim Aoude Chapter 8. "My Son is a Fanatic" or How to Have Things Both Ways in a Heritage Debate Michael Rowlands Chapter 9. Just Wars, Civilisation and Empire in Postmodernity: Perspectives from South of the Rio Grande John Gledhill Chapter 10. September 11 and October 7: From Human Tragedy to Power Politics Leif Manger Chapter 11. The New Leviathan and the Crisis of Criticism in the Social Sciences Bruce Kapferer Notes on Contributors ...
