{"product_id":"shell-shocked-the-social-response-to-terrorist-attacks-hardback-9781509520336","title":"Shell Shocked; The Social Response to Terrorist Attacks (Hardback) 9781509520336","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShell Shocked\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Social Response to Terrorist Attacks\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGérôme Truc (Author), Andrew Brown (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509520336, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 November 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.8 x 3 cm, 0.635 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Sociology has an important contribution to make in helping us understand the impact of and social responses to terrorism in contemporary societies. \u003ci\u003eShell Shocked\u003c\/i\u003e provides just such a contribution.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDr Anne Eyre, \u003ci\u003eThe Sociological Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Muslim World Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is it that leaves us shell shocked in the face of the massacres carried out in New York on 9\/11 or in Paris on 13 November 2015? How are we to explain the intensity of the reaction to the attacks on \u003ci\u003eCharlie Hebdo\u003c\/i\u003e? Answering these questions involves trying to understand what a society goes through when it is subjected to the ordeal of terrorist attacks. And it impels us to try to explain why millions of people feel so concerned and shaken by them, even when they do not have a direct connection with any of the victims. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Shell Shocked\u003c\/i\u003e, sociologist Gérôme Truc sheds new light on these events, returning to the ways in which ordinary individuals lived through and responded to the attacks of 9\/11, of 11 March 2004 in Madrid and 7 July 2005 in London. Analysing political language and media images, demonstrations of solidarity and minutes of silence, as well as the tens of thousands of messages addressed to the victims, his investigation brings about the complexity of our feelings about the Islamists' attacks. It also uncovers the sources of the solidarity that, in our individualistic societies, ultimately finds expression in the first person singular rather than the first person plural: 'I am Charlie', 'I am Paris.' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis timely and path-breaking book will appeal to students and scholars in sociology and politics and to anyone interested in understanding the impact of terrorism in contemporary societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Terrorist attacks as a test.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: What is happening to us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1: Under attack.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9\/11 live: accident, terrorist attack, or act of war?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe view from Europe: from Western solidarity to a cosmopolitan perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2: Experiencing your 'own' 9\/11.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 March attacks like a 'new 9\/11'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 July 2005, a 'British 9\/11?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3: To show, or not to show, violence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe place of the dead.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ethics of iconographic decisions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4: Demonstrating solidarity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe attacks as a 'time to demonstrate'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy demonstrate after an attack?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5: Observing silence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA ritual of collective mourning.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA problem of moral equivalence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: What touches us.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6: Terrorist attacks and their publics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom written reactions to the concerned publics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn what capacity an attack concerns us.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7: The meanings of 'we'.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbove and below the level of the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWorld cities and the test of terrorism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8: The values at stake.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReactions to terrorist attacks as value judgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe banal pacifism of the Europeans.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9: The attacks in persons.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe singularization of the victims.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReacting as a singular person.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10: Solidarity in the singular.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe attachment to place.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe coincidence of dates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe homology of experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion: 'There's something of Charlie in all of us'.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelective bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441787203864,"sku":"9781509520336","price":42.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509520336.jpg?v=1785025053","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/shell-shocked-the-social-response-to-terrorist-attacks-hardback-9781509520336","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}