The Great White North Encounters September 11: Race, Gender, and Nation in Canada's National Daily, “The Globe and Mail”

Terror is a feature of the symbolic order, the vast mesh of representations and narratives both official and unofficial, public and private, in which a culture works out its sense of itself. It affects that dynamic but relatively stable set of implicit parameters that establish a group's sense...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jiwani, Yasmin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2005
In: Social justice
Year: 2005, Volume: 32, Issue: 4, Pages: 50-68
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Keywords:
Globe, The (Newspaper)
Mail (Newspaper)
Globe & Mail, The (Newspaper)
Torstar Corp
Social Cohesion
Political Participation
Mass Media
Nationalism
Racism
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Press coverage
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Summary:Terror is a feature of the symbolic order, the vast mesh of representations and narratives both official and unofficial, public and private, in which a culture works out its sense of itself. It affects that dynamic but relatively stable set of implicit parameters that establish a group's sense of the actual and the possible and create a loose but definite sense of collective identity.—Geoffrey Gait Harpham (2002:573) Reprinted by permission of the publisher.