Cultural Studies in America After September 11, 2001

IF 0.9 4区社会学 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES

Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies Pub Date : 2002-02-01 DOI:10.1177/153270860200200101

N. Denzin

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Abstract

The world changed on September 11, 2001. The attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., produced a horror, to quote New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, that is more than the mind can bear. Confused, angry, depressed, full of grief, not knowing how to act, Americans watched their television screens and read their newspapers, seeking direction from those who would bring meaning to this event. This moment requires critically informed responses from the academy. Such responses will help people recover meaning in the face of this senseless, brutal violence; a violence that continues to produce voiceless screams of terror and insanity; a violence and a horror punctuated by stories certain to become part of urban folklore. A young child awakens her mother, &dquo;Mommy can we use the cellphone to call Daddy in heaven?&dquo; (Tierney, 2001, p. A24). In response to the events following September 11, I asked a number of leading cultural studies scholars associated with Cultural Studies H Critical Methodologies to comment on this moment and cultural studies’ place within it. They were given less than a week to prepare their remarks. Their powerful and moving interpretations follow in the next section.

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2001年9月11日之后的美国文化研究

2001年9月11日，世界发生了变化。对纽约世贸中心和华盛顿五角大楼的袭击，产生了一种恐怖，用纽约市市长鲁道夫·w·朱利安尼(Rudolph W. Giuliani)的话来说，这超出了人们的思维所能承受的范围。美国人困惑、愤怒、沮丧、悲伤，不知道如何行动，他们看着电视屏幕，读着报纸，向那些能给这一事件带来意义的人寻求指导。这一时刻需要学术界做出审慎的回应。这样的回应将帮助人们在面对这种毫无意义的残酷暴力时恢复意义;一种暴力，继续产生无声的恐怖和疯狂的尖叫;充满暴力和恐怖的故事肯定会成为城市民间传说的一部分。一个小孩叫醒了她的妈妈:“妈妈，我们可以用手机给天上的爸爸打电话吗?”(Tierney, 2001, p. A24)。作为对911事件的回应，我请了一些与文化研究和批判方法论相关的主要文化研究学者对这一时刻和文化研究在其中的地位发表评论。他们只有不到一周的时间来准备发言。下一节将介绍他们有力而感人的诠释。

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Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies Multiple-

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1.40

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16.70%

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期刊介绍： 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.