Pub Date : 2002-08-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200305
Cameron R. McCarthy
in a teacup, to capture the sands of the beach in the cup of one’s hand. What I write instead is a meditation, a set of scattered thoughts, reflections on the usefulness of postcolonial theorizing in these times, and my own biography as a postcolonial subject and educator. If there is anyone who still resists the ideas of globalization, transnationalism, postcolonialism, and their implications for how we live with each other in the modern world, their implications for the taken-for-granted organizing categories such as nation, state, culture, identity, and Empire-the idea that we live in a deeply interconnected world in which centers and margins are unstable and are constantly being redefined, rearticulated, and reordered-then, such a person must have been awaken from his or her methodological slumber by the events of 9/11. The critical events of that day-the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the crescendo of the fallout attendant to these extraordinary acts-threaten to consume us all. It is striking, in the language of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire (2000), how fragile modern forms of center-periphery arrangements of imperial rule are. It is striking-with the intensification of representational technologies,
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Pub Date : 2002-08-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200302
Peter McLaren
Under the sign of the Stars and Stripes, the war against terrorism unchains the attack dogs of the New World Order in defense of civilization. In the pro- cess, the United States has crossed the threshold of militant authoritarianism and goose-stepped onto the global balcony of neofascism, befouling the Con- stitution along the way. As long as the nation keeps cheering, and Bush's impish jaw juts ever forward, the stench goes unnoticed. Among the Bush administration, there is a concerted effort to meld political rhetoric and apocalyptic discourse as part of a larger politics of fear and para- noia. Like a priest of the black arts, Bush has successfully disinterred the rem- nants of Ronald Reagan's millennarian rhetoric from the graveyard of chiliastic fantasies, appropriated it for his own interests, and played it in public like a charm. Self-fashioning one's image through the use of messianic and millenar- ian tropes works best on the intended audience (in this case, the American pub- lic) when the performance is disabused of shrillness, appears uncompromising, and remains unrestrained, confident, anagogic, and sometimes allegorical. Fas- cist plain speak is a discursive rendering that is straightforward and unapolo- getic and, like an iceberg, does most of the damage beneath the surface. Bush's handlers are masters of the fascist spin, and Bush is a perfect candidate because he hardly needs any ideological persuasion to get on board the fascist band- wagon. He is the perfect host for collapsing the distinction between religious authoritarianism and politics. Bush's defense of the war on terrorism works largely through archetypal association and operates in the crucible of the struc- tural unconscious. Bush may believe that Providence has assigned him the arduous yet glorious task of rescuing America from the satanic forces of evil, as if he, himself, were the embodiment of the generalized will and the unalloyed spirit of the American people. Evoking the role of the divine prophet who iden- tifies with the sword arm of divine retribution, Bush reveals the eschatological undertow to the war on terrorism, perhaps most evident in his totalizing and Manichean pronouncements where he likens bin Laden and his al Quaeda chthonic warriors to absolute evil and the United States to the apogee of free- dom and goodness.
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Pub Date : 2002-05-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200205
R. McChesney
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Pub Date : 2002-05-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200214
Zine Magubane, E. Ignacio
Through an analysis of the rhetorical strategies used by mainstream U.S. media between November 8, 2000, and March 3, 2001, the authors show how the U.S. mainstream media helped to restabilize the United States as the pillar of democracy and how an analysis of media accounts can expose the "changing nature of the order of things." The authors demonstrate how the image of the United States as the pillar of democracy was protected through an analysis of (a) images of the Third World that provided a vocabulary for describing America's domestic crisis, (b) media descriptions of our own political foibles and descriptions of similar happenings in other countries, and (c) the downplaying of other countries' media accounts of the U.S. 2000 election crisis.
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Pub Date : 2002-05-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200207
Cary Nelson
ence simultaneously rich and hollow, meaningful and unspeakable-are multiple possible futures whose relative probability we cannot reliably assess. We will surely contemplate in detail the character of events that will never come to pass. And events we never imagined, like the events of September 11 th, will surely overtake us and displace our wisdom, our fears, and our best professional knowledge. I cannot remember another time when the future seemed so decisively unreadable, outside our control. As subjects supposed to know, academ-
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Pub Date : 2002-05-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200209
J. Kincheloe
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Pub Date : 2002-05-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200215
Tom Wengraf, Prue Chamberlayne, J. Bornat
Biographical research is increasingly used for understanding current historical and cultural changes and for purposes of education, training, and policy development. This "biographizing" movement is part of a broader picture of shifting configurations of concerns, concepts, and methodologies. In 2000, the introduction to the authors' The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science attempted such a picture. The authors wanted to promote greater mutual awareness and partnership between a "German" approach, seen as having a more explicit conceptual and methodological apparatus, and a "British" approach that had a greater concern for power relations around the interview relationship and in processing, interpreting, and reporting. In that text, cultural studies was relatively neglected and treated rather dismissively. The authors welcome the opportunity in this shortened, revised version to include a more extended and reflective treatment of cultural studies. They invite others to tell different stories, to supplement or correct their own
传记研究越来越多地用于了解当前的历史和文化变化以及教育，培训和政策制定的目的。这种“传记化”的运动是改变关注点、概念和方法配置的更广泛图景的一部分。2000年，两位作者在《社会科学转向传记方法》(the Turn to Biographical Methods In Social Science)的引言中试图描绘出这样一幅图景。作者希望促进“德国”方法和“英国”方法之间更大的相互意识和伙伴关系，“德国”方法被视为具有更明确的概念和方法工具，而“英国”方法则更关注围绕采访关系以及处理，解释和报告的权力关系。在那篇文章中，文化研究相对被忽视，受到相当轻蔑的对待。作者欢迎在这个缩短的、修订的版本中有机会包括对文化研究的更广泛和反思的处理。他们邀请别人讲述不同的故事，补充或纠正自己的故事
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Pub Date : 2002-05-01DOI: 10.1177/153270860200200203
J. Bratich
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