Jenifer Chao

Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror

Sensible Interventions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780367887193
• ISBN-10: 0367887193
• Artikelnr.: 58438003

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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