Shell Shocked: The Social Response to Terrorist Attacks

Author:   Gérôme Truc ,  Andrew Brown
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9781509520336


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   24 November 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Gérôme Truc ,  Andrew Brown
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Polity Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781509520336


ISBN 10:   1509520333
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   24 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Truc's hermeneutic powers are extraordinary. He reveals the post-hoc framing process that transformed 9/11 from an event into a structure in the American and European collective consciousness. For example, he relates the immediate attribution of the war frame to deep collective memories in the U.S. about Pearl Harbor, and he relativizes European understandings of subsequent terrorist events in the same way, demonstrating that they are interpretations based on analogical reasoning rather than explanations based on real experience. This book deserves to be read and discussed widely. Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University


"""Truc's hermeneutic powers are extraordinary. He reveals the post-hoc framing process that transformed 9/11 from an event into a structure in the American and European collective consciousness. For example, he relates the immediate attribution of the 'war' frame to deep collective memories in the U.S. about Pearl Harbor, and he relativizes European understandings of subsequent terrorist events in the same way, demonstrating that they are interpretations based on analogical reasoning rather than explanations based on real experience. This book deserves to be read and discussed widely."" —Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University ""Sociology has an important contribution to make in helping us understand the impact of and social responses to terrorism in contemporary societies. Shell Shocked provides just such a contribution."" —Dr Anne Eyre, The Sociological Review ""Truc has provided a fascinating examination of a previously neglected area in which his penetrating intellectual insight and scholarly commentary will no doubt be much in demand following any future research he initiates."" —The Muslim World Book Review"


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Gérôme Truc is a sociologist, tenured research fellow at the CNRS and member of the Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique. He teaches at the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay.

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