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

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Chao, Jenifer Chao
• Con la collaborazione di: Matt Davies (Editore della collana), Kyle Grayson (Editore della collana), Simon Philpott (Editore della collana), Christina Rowley (Editore della collana), Jutta Weldes (Editore della collana)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138710887
• ISBN: 978-1-138-71088-7
• Pagine: 150
• Serie: Popular Culture and World Politics; Popular Culture and World Politics
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; 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