Holland, J orcid.org/0000-0003-4883-332X (2009) From September 11th, 2001 to 9-11: From Void to Crisis. International Political Sociology, 3 (3). pp. 275-292. ISSN 1749-5679
Abstract
This paper draws on interviews conducted in the days and weeks after the events of September 11th, 2001, analyzing the transition from “September 11th, 2001” to “9-11.” That is, from the discursive void that immediately followed the acts of terrorism in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania to the apparently self-evident crisis that the events came to represent in the following days and weeks. First, the paper redresses persistent oversights of discourse-oriented work by recognizing and investigating both the agency of the US general public and the context that official responses were articulated in. Second, the paper serves to denaturalize the construction of 9-11 as crisis, questioning the first and pre-requisite stage of the emerging discourse of the “War on Terror.” Theorizing void, crisis and their relationship enables an understanding of how the War on Terror was possible and opens a critical space for its contestation.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2009 International Studies Association. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in International Policy Sociology following peer review. The version of record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-5687.2009.00076.x |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 06 Sep 2019 14:49 |
Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2019 14:49 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/j.1749-5687.2009.00076.x |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:95840 |