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Book SynopsisNicholas S. Paliewicz and Marouf Hasian Jr. contend that the National September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum is a securitized site of remembrance that evokes feelings of insecurity that justify post-9/11 domestic and international security efforts.
Trade Review“In
The Securitization of Memorial Space Paliewicz and Hasian make a significant contribution to the field’s understanding of the rhetoric of memorials and museums. Their integration of rhetorical and critical theory brings enormous insight into the ways surveillance and control are practiced around, within, and through the memorial’s material rhetoric. This insight alone makes this book essential reading for those interested in public memory, space/place, and/or surveillance.”—George F. (Guy) McHendry Jr., assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Creighton University
“An essential read for anyone interested in place and memory work in a post-9/11 culture. Paliewicz and Hasian offer an exhaustive review of literature surrounding the memory work at Ground Zero, and their critical analysis of the assemblages of public memory produced through the National September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum offers significant insights into both the personal and global consequences of securitizing sites of trauma in the contemporary moment.”—Elinor Light, special assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Colorado State University
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Remembering 9/11 (In)Securities and the Impetus for National Commemoration at Ground Zero
1. The Ambiguities and Insecurities of Ground Zero Space: How Dust and Shrines Threatened the Resecuritization of New York
2. Rebuilding Ground Zero: Risky Objects and the Force of Security, 2002–2005
3. Policing Memory with Moral Authority: The Idealistic Visions of Family Members of the Deceased, 2004–2014
4. Melancholic Commemoration and “Policing” at the National September 11 Memorial, 2011–2014
5. Holocaust Memories and Counterterrorist Practices at Ground Zero
Conclusion: How the National September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum Functions as a Political Platform for Legitimating Future U.S. Interventionism
Source Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
