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The World Trade Center and Global Crisis: Some Critical Perspectives

By Bruce Kapferer (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2004
ISBN
9780857458643
DOI
10.1515/9780857458643
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
226 kB (231245 bytes)
Series
Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis; 1
Pages
94\94
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 03:33:16

Description

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.

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