Will Sociology find some New Concepts before the US finds Osama bin Laden?

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Fuller
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Social World ◽  
Suicide Bombing ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Osama Bin Laden

Five months have now passed since the 11 September 2001 suicide bombing of the World Trade Center that prompted my original article and the responses published in this journal. Some responses convey the impression of sociologists so eager to find new opportunities to ride their hobby horses that they ignore the potential for the social world to confound their cherished expectations. To partially remedy this situation, I propose the concept of ‘meso- knowledge’ as a sensitising device for understanding the current geopolitical scene that attempts to get beyond the theoretical ruts of contemporary postmodernism.

Images of Our Dead Enemies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Moeller ◽  
Joanna Nurmis ◽  
Saranaz Barforoush
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Binary Decision ◽  
The World ◽  
Iconic Images ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Osama Bin Laden ◽  
World Trade Center Towers

This chapter provides a comparative analysis of visual representations surrounding the killing of Osama bin Laden. In the minutes and hours after the news of bin Laden's killing broke across social media and then through President Barack Obama's brief May 1 speech to the nation, news outlets across the world scrambled to cover the story of the decade. With no immediately forthcoming photos of bin Laden's corpse, mainstream news outlets were excused from the ethical as well as moral binary decision about whether to show or not show images of bin Laden's corpse. Instead, news outlets the world over had a set of decisions to make about what kind of image to select to accompany the announcement of bin Laden's death. The choice of which visual would lead the news became a complex, even political decision. Some news outlets chose to run archival photos of bin Laden; others used iconic images of al Qaeda's attack on the World Trade Center towers on 9/11. In essence, through their choices, news outlets decided how to visually “frame” the death of Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted man.

Abbreviating terror: 9/11 in the press

English Today ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-64
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Telephone Number ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
National Emergency

On and around the first anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center, the world's press made full use of ‘9/11’ (also the national emergency telephone number in the US). The symbolism of number/divider/number has not replaced either ‘September 11’ or ‘Sept. 11’, but added to them by giving the date a special resonance. It may yet become the key name for the whole horrific series of events.

The Afghanistan War, 2001–?

2019 ◽  
pp. 119-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Lebovic
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Bush Administration ◽  
War On Terrorism ◽  
Global War On Terrorism ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Global War ◽  
International Security Assistance Force

With the September 11, 2001 attack by al-Qaeda terrorists on the World Trade Center, the Bush administration conceded to decisional bias. It committed to Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan without duly assessing the implications of a Taliban defeat or how it might serve the administration’s “global war on terrorism.” Once engaged, the administration defined the US mission in Afghanistan broadly yet remained detached from harsh realities—including Afghan government corruption and ineptitude, finite alliance resources (in the International Security Assistance Force), and a Taliban resurgence—that hampered the achievement of these goals. The Obama administration capped US involvement in pursuing the limited goal of “reversing” the Taliban’s momentum. Although the administration increased US force levels in Afghanistan, it did so modestly and temporarily and then pursued a troop exit despite the country’s ongoing violence and instability. The administration stuck to its plan, slowing, not reversing, the withdrawal as the country’s security conditions worsened.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF 9/11 ON US REIT RETURNS: FUNDAMENTAL OR FINANCIAL?

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Gheno ◽  
Stephen L. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Economic Determinants ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Expected Earnings ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Daily Returns

Following the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 volatility of daily returns of the US stock market rose sharply. This increase in volatility may reflect fundamental changes in the economic determinants of prices such as expected earnings, interest rates, real growth and inflation. Alternatively, the increase in volatility may simply reflect the effects of increased uncertainty in the financial markets. This study therefore sets out to determine if the effects of the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 had a fundamental or purely financial impact on US real estate returns. In order to do this we compare pre‐and post‐9/11 crisis returns for a number of US REIT indexes and in general we find that the effect of the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 had only a financial effect on REIT returns and therefore was transitory.

Destroying Modernity: The World Trade Center

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-145
Author(s):  
Miles Orvell
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Karlheinz Stockhausen ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Iconic Image ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Photographic Imagery

This chapter centers on the World Trade Center disaster and how its significance was interpreted through photographic imagery and the mass media. The spectacle of destruction has never been more vividly recorded than in the imagery of 9/11. The chapter discusses the work of two influential documentary photographers—James Nachtwey and Joel Meyerowitz—and what they were trying to achieve. But 9/11 photographs were also collected in two major archives that are discussed in the chapter—Here Is New York and the Library of Congress’s September 11 project—with their contrasting goals. The question of the “iconic” image is discussed in terms of the Falling Man photos, and the chapter concludes with a consideration of the extreme aestheticizing of the event in the remarks of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, which caused an uproar in Europe and the US.

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