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Heath-Kelly, Charlotte (2016) Death and security : memory and mortality at the bombsite. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781784993139
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Abstract
Making a bold intervention into critical security studies literature, this book explores the ontological relationship between mortality and security. It considers the mortality theories of Heidegger and Bauman alongside literature from the sociology of death, before undertaking a comparative exploration of the memorialisation of four prominent post-terrorist sites: the World Trade Centre in New York, the Bali bombsite, the London bombings and the Norwegian sites attacked by Anders Breivik.
By interviewing the architects and designers of these reconstruction projects, the book shows that practices of memorialisation are a retrospective security endeavour - they conceal and re-narrate the traumatic incursion of death. Disaster recovery is replete with security practices that return mortality to its sublimated position and remove the disruption posed by mortality to political authority. The book will be of significant interest to academics and postgraduates working in the fields of critical security studies, memory studies and international politics.
| Item Type: | Book | ||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JZ International relations |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies |
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| Publisher: | Manchester University Press | ||||
| Place of Publication: | Manchester | ||||
| ISBN: | 9781784993139 | ||||
| Official Date: | 26 November 2016 | ||||
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| Number of Pages: | 208 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Funder: | British Academy (BA), Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC) | ||||
| Grant number: | SG121055 (British Academy) & ES/N002407/1 (ESRC) | ||||
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