{"title":"Democracy and the Politics of Terrorism: Community, Fear, and the Suppression of Dissent","authors":"Henry A. Giroux","doi":"10.1177/153270860200200303","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Five months after the horrific terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, President George Bush announced in his State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002, that the &dquo;war against terror is only just beginning&dquo; and that if other governments exhibit timidity in the face of terror, America will act without them. Claiming that the security of the nation was his first priority, Bush not only proclaimed a war without end but suggested that the United States would act unilaterally throughout the world to enforce what","PeriodicalId":46996,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies","volume":"46 1","pages":"334 - 342"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2002-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"19","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/153270860200200303","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Five months after the horrific terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, President George Bush announced in his State of the Union Address on January 29, 2002, that the &dquo;war against terror is only just beginning&dquo; and that if other governments exhibit timidity in the face of terror, America will act without them. Claiming that the security of the nation was his first priority, Bush not only proclaimed a war without end but suggested that the United States would act unilaterally throughout the world to enforce what
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The mandate for this interdisciplinary, international journal is to move methods talk in cultural studies to the forefront, into the regions of moral, ethical and political discourse. The commitment to imagine a more democratic society has been sa guiding feature of cultural studies from the very beginnnig. Contributors to this journal understand that the discourses of a critical, moral methodology are basic to any effort to re-engage the promise of the social sciences and the humanities for democracy in the 21st Century. We seek works that connect critical emanicipatory theories to new forms of social justice and democratic practice are encouraged.