{"title":"Situational awareness and situational heroism: a close reading of testimonies from the London Bridge terror attack 2019.","authors":"Katharina Karcher","doi":"10.1080/21624887.2024.2388319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2024.2388319","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on an-in depth analysis of two testimonies, this article explores how ordinary people can become 'situational heroes'. On 29 November 2019, Darryn Frost and Steve Gallant were caught up in a terrorist attack in central London. In that situation, Frost and Gallant demonstrated a high degree of situational awareness and took bold and swift action to stop the attacker. Using the literary method of close reading, I analyse their testimonies with a particular eye towards two questions: how did the two men perceive the dangerous situation? Can and should they be seen as heroes? As a convicted murderer and long-serving prisoner, Gallant was certainly no hero in the conventional sense. Yet, in 2023 he received The Queen's Gallantry Medal for 'for acts of exemplary bravery' alongside with Frost and a few others. This, I argue, is symptomatic of a broader shift towards situational awareness and towards what I call situational heroism. As it is less about <i>being</i> a hero and more about<i>acting heroically</i> in particular situations, situational heroism is less elitist and more inclusive than many historical forms of heroism. However, it also raises new ethical questions.</p>","PeriodicalId":29930,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Security","volume":"13 1","pages":"58-69"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11934947/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143721674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chair in Entebbe","authors":"Daphine Arinda","doi":"10.1080/21624887.2023.2290867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2023.2290867","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29930,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Security","volume":" 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138960674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Things never remain the same","authors":"Ronny Saeed Hasan","doi":"10.1080/21624887.2023.2290887","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2023.2290887","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29930,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Security","volume":"13 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138998090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poetics of silence","authors":"Aytak Dibavar","doi":"10.1080/21624887.2023.2290885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2023.2290885","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29930,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Security","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138999898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Not just a hashtag","authors":"Rosie Bergonzi","doi":"10.1080/21624887.2023.2290879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2023.2290879","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29930,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Security","volume":"7 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138971596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The permit and the gun","authors":"Catherine Charrett","doi":"10.1080/21624887.2023.2290881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2023.2290881","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29930,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Security","volume":"75 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008173","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lived and imagined in/securities through poetry","authors":"J. C. D. Calderón, Ahmad Qais Munhazim","doi":"10.1080/21624887.2023.2290888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2023.2290888","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29930,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Security","volume":"20 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138979524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trauma temporalities: linguistics","authors":"Erin E. Troy","doi":"10.1080/21624887.2023.2290877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2023.2290877","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29930,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Security","volume":"226 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138981409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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