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New York After 9/11 (Paperback)
Susan Opotow, Zachary Baron Shemtob; Contributions by Michael Arad, Michael Crane, Brian Davis, …
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R801
Discovery Miles 8 010
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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An estimated 2 billion people around the world watched the
catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center. The enormity of
the moment was immediately understood and quickly took on global
proportions. What has been less obvious is the effect on the locus
of the attacks, New York City, not as a seat of political or
economic power, but as a community; not in the days and weeks
afterward, but over months and years. New York after 9/11 offers
insightful and critical observations about the processes set in
motion by September 11, 2001 in New York, and holds important
lessons for the future. This interdisciplinary collection brings
together experts from diverse fields to discuss the long-term
recovery of New York City after 9/11. Susan Opotow and Zachary
Baron Shemtob invited experts in architecture and design, medicine,
health, community advocacy, psychology, public safety, human
rights, law, and mental health to look back on the aftereffects of
that tragic day in key spheres of life in New York City. With a
focus on the themes of space and memory, public health and public
safety, trauma and conflict, and politics and social change, this
comprehensive account of how 9/11 changed New York sets out to
answer three questions: What were the key conflicts that erupted in
New York City in 9/11's wake? What clashing interests were involved
and how did they change over time? And what was the role of these
conflicts in the transition from trauma to recovery for New York
City as a whole? Contributors discuss a variety of issues that
emerged in this tragedy's wake, some immediately and others in the
years that followed, including: PTSD among first responders;
conflicts and design challenges of rebuilding the World Trade
Center site, the memorial, and the museum; surveillance of Muslim
communities; power struggles among public safety agencies; the
development of technologies for faster building evacuations; and
the emergence of chronic illnesses and fatalities among first
responders and people who lived, worked, and attended school in the
vicinity of the 9/11 site. A chapter on two Ground Zeros -in
Hiroshima and New York - compares and historicizes the challenges
of memorialization and recovery. Each chapter offers a nuanced,
vivid, and behind-the-scenes account of issues as they unfolded
over time and across various contexts, dispelling simplistic
narratives of this extended and complicated period. Illuminating a
city's multifaceted response in the wake of a catastrophic and
traumatic attack, New York after 9/11 illustrates recovery as a
process that is complex, multivalent, and ongoing.
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New York After 9/11 (Hardcover)
Susan Opotow, Zachary Baron Shemtob; Contributions by Michael Arad, Michael Crane, Brian Davis, …
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R2,462
Discovery Miles 24 620
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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An estimated 2 billion people around the world watched the
catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center. The enormity of
the moment was immediately understood and quickly took on global
proportions. What has been less obvious is the effect on the locus
of the attacks, New York City, not as a seat of political or
economic power, but as a community; not in the days and weeks
afterward, but over months and years. New York after 9/11 offers
insightful and critical observations about the processes set in
motion by September 11, 2001 in New York, and holds important
lessons for the future. This interdisciplinary collection brings
together experts from diverse fields to discuss the long-term
recovery of New York City after 9/11. Susan Opotow and Zachary
Baron Shemtob invited experts in architecture and design, medicine,
health, community advocacy, psychology, public safety, human
rights, law, and mental health to look back on the aftereffects of
that tragic day in key spheres of life in New York City. With a
focus on the themes of space and memory, public health and public
safety, trauma and conflict, and politics and social change, this
comprehensive account of how 9/11 changed New York sets out to
answer three questions: What were the key conflicts that erupted in
New York City in 9/11's wake? What clashing interests were involved
and how did they change over time? And what was the role of these
conflicts in the transition from trauma to recovery for New York
City as a whole? Contributors discuss a variety of issues that
emerged in this tragedy's wake, some immediately and others in the
years that followed, including: PTSD among first responders;
conflicts and design challenges of rebuilding the World Trade
Center site, the memorial, and the museum; surveillance of Muslim
communities; power struggles among public safety agencies; the
development of technologies for faster building evacuations; and
the emergence of chronic illnesses and fatalities among first
responders and people who lived, worked, and attended school in the
vicinity of the 9/11 site. A chapter on two Ground Zeros -in
Hiroshima and New York - compares and historicizes the challenges
of memorialization and recovery. Each chapter offers a nuanced,
vivid, and behind-the-scenes account of issues as they unfolded
over time and across various contexts, dispelling simplistic
narratives of this extended and complicated period. Illuminating a
city's multifaceted response in the wake of a catastrophic and
traumatic attack, New York after 9/11 illustrates recovery as a
process that is complex, multivalent, and ongoing.
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