1st Edition

Urban Fears and Global Terrors Citizenship, Multicultures and Belongings After 7/7

By Victor Jeleniewski Seidler Copyright 2007
326 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge

Urban Fears and Global Terrors After 7/7 explores the disruption around that day, taking people back to the events and the sense of loss, fear and mourning that followed. By framing a new landscape of urban fear Victor Seidler shows how new technologies helped to shape responses to a global terror that had been anticipated but was dreadful in its reality. By listening to the narratives people... Read more

1. Traumatic Events, Precarious Lives and Social Theory  2. Urban Fears and Terrors of 7/7  3. Urban Dreams, Fears and Realities  4. Missing, Loss, Fear and Terror  5. Risks, Traumas and Insecurities  6. Young Masculinities, Islam and Terror  7. Young Men, Islamic Cultures and Belonging(s)  8. Global Terror, Islam and Citizenship  9. Fears, Uncertainties and Terrors  10. The West, Islam and the Politics of Dialogue  11. Faith, Martyrdom and Suicide Bombings  12. Religion, ‘Race’ and Multiculturalisms  13. Civilisations, Terrorisms and Hospitalities  14. Civilisations, Belongings and Ethics  15. Conclusions: Citizenship, Multiculturalisms and Complex Belongings

Biography

Victor Jeleniewski Seidler is Professor of Social Theory in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has written widely in areas of social and cultural theory and philosophy.