University of Nebraska Press
The Securitization of Memorial Space: Rhetoric and Public Memory
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- Nicholas S Paliewicz
- University of Nebraska Press
- Hardcover
- 9781496215550
- 9 X 6 X 0.81 inches
- 1.35 pounds
- Social Science > Privacy & Surveillance (see also Political Science - Privacy & Surveillance
- English
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Contributing to studies in public memory, rhetoric and argumentation, and critical security studies, Nicholas S. Paliewicz and Marouf Hasian Jr. show how various human and nonhuman actors participated in complicated argumentative formations that have mobilized political, performative, and militaristic practices of anti-terroristic violence in other parts of the world. While there were times that certain argumentative stakeholders--such as local New Yorkers--questioned the necessity of securitizing this site of memory, agentic factions including the families of those who died on 9/11, public supporters, security agents, and politicians created an ideologically oriented security assemblage that remembers 9/11 through counter-terroristic performances at Ground Zero.
In chronological order from the 2001 dustbowl to the present popularization of 9/11 memories, the authors present seven chapters of rich rhetorical analysis that show how the National September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum perpetuates grief, uncertainty, and angst that affects public memory in multidirectional ways.
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