scholarly journals The Dark Underside of 9/11 in Ken Kalfus's A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (2007) by

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Eman Saud Thannoon ◽  
Asst. Prof. Azhar Noori Fejer
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Center ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Sociocultural Approach ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The Relationship

The eventual attacks of 9/11in America, on The World Trade Center at Ground Zero, had changed the world and brought disastrous problems to a lot of civilians. Many people lost their lives; others were traumatized and suffered a disordered life. The disastrous event revealed the hidden aspects of the States and its assistants-the soldiers and copes. Studying the relationship between the psyche of individuals and their outside world is the core of this paper. The project investigates the reasons behind acting out trauma and its impact on individuals and society. The sociocultural approach applied helps in examining the behavior of the individuals through their reactions to the event of 9/11.  Ken Kalfus's A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (2007), is analyzed according to the psychologist, Cathy Caruth's trauma theory and the sociologist, Kia Erikson's theory of cultural trauma.  The novel deals with both kinds of trauma;  psychic and cultural. It examines the behavior of the traumatized couple, Marshall and Joyce, lived a rather miserable and too hard and harsh life because of terrorism. They finally separate from each other uncaring about their two children - Viola and Victor

Forting Up the Skyline: Rebuilding at Ground Zero

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Molotch
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center

This chapter focuses on Ground Zero and the successive attempts to rebuild. It treats the replacement skyline of New York as a great mishap and wasted opportunity. Security measures display, on the ground, some rather new ways that political authority combines with market forces to shape the world. Although there were varied aesthetic and moral visions of what should happen at the site, the pugilist instinct predominated. Post-9/11 measures to protect the downtown called for not just any sort of buildings, but those that would show the enemy that we could build tall and powerful. The result is a different kind of building in the form of One World Trade Center, also known as “Freedom Tower.” It is argued that the “program” for the structure, still in another way, created vulnerabilities through misguided hardening up.

scholarly journals Do Pruitt-Igoe ao World Trade Center: planejando a ex/implosão do (pós)modernismo

2003 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Clara Irazábal
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Project Planning ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Housing Project ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Modern Thinking

O artigo discute, em meio a conceitos de pós-modernidade, as semelhanças na destruição de dois marcos da arquitetura moderna: o conjunto residencial Pruitt-Igoe (PI) e o World Trade Center (WTC). Argumenta que a destruição, tanto do PI como do WTC, deveu-se não apenas à questão física (no PI, uma destruição planejada pela sociedade, e no WTC, uma destruição por ela não planejada); pelo contrário, a queda de ambos os edifícios seria uma materialização do fim do pensamento modernista, do qual seriam símbolos. Contrariamente ao que foi dito a respeito do 11/09/2001, propõe que naquela hora o mundo já havia mudado e que a destruição do WTC foi apenas a representação da mudança. Seguindo essa argumentação, o artigo propõe inovações no campo do planejamento e da arquitetura, assim como novas concepções para espaços contemporâneos, a exemplo dos projetos do novo WTC.Palavras-chave: arquitetura moderna; pós-modernidade; Pruitt-Igoe; World Trade Center. Abstract: This article proposes, amidst post modernity concepts, the resemblance between the destruction of two major symbols of modern planning and architecture: the Pruitt-Igoe (PI) housing project and the World Trade Center (WTC). The author states that both events were not only physical (the PI implosion having been a planned event in contrast to the unplanned WTC destruction) but also the materialization of the fall of the modern thinking embodied in them. Contrary to most ideas, the author proposes that by 09/11 the world had already changed, and the WTC destruction only represented that change. Along with these arguments, the author also proposes a series of changes in the planning and architectural fields, as well as new conceptions towards contemporary project planning, such as the projects for Ground Zero. Keywords: modern architecture; post-modernity; Pruitt-Igoe; World Trade Center.

The Relationship Between PTSD Arousal Symptoms and Depression Among Mothers Exposed to the World Trade Center Attacks

2008 ◽  
Vol 196 (6) ◽  
pp. 504-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Rubacka ◽  
James Schmeidler ◽  
Yoko Nomura ◽  
Rohini Luthra ◽  
Khushmand Rajendran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
World Trade Center Attacks

Oh Did You See the Ashes Come Thickly Falling Down?

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Zeitlin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
New York University ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
Union Square ◽  
New Yorkers

This chapter considers the proliferation of street poems as a form of healing and remembrance after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City. In the days and weeks that followed the attack on the World Trade Center, the streets of New York lay eerily quiet and deserted. The poets did not wait for the dust to settle. As streams of water poured over the smoke at Ground Zero, distraught and bereaved New Yorkers scrawled missives in the ash. On the afternoon of the first day, Jordan Schuster, a student from New York University, laid out a sheet of butcher paper in Union Square; he was the first of many to inspire his fellow New Yorkers to set down their thoughts in poetry. Words proliferated into a barrage of written feeling that vented rage and offered solace. Street shrines served as portals for the living to talk directly to the terrorists.

Performing trauma: Commemorating 9/11 in downtown Manhattan

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 452-469
Author(s):  
Ross Poole
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
Memorial Museum ◽  
The World ◽  
Below Ground ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City

There are two memorials at the site of the World Trade Center: the above ground Memorial Park and the below ground Memorial Museum. They embody very different conceptions of how an event such as 9/11 should be remembered. The Memorial Park was an attempt to integrate the recognition of loss into the ongoing life of the city. It fails to do this, largely because it succumbs to the temptation to let the site itself—“Ground Zero”—do the work of memory. The two pools (“voids”) are located on the footprints of the two towers. They dominate the site, inheriting the clumsy monumentality of the destroyed buildings. The underground Memorial Museum combines relics, remnants, images, and newsreels, to involve its visitors in the emotional immediacy of the events of 9/11. It presents 9/11 as a traumatic memory, one to be re-experienced but not understood, placing it outside history in a kind of perpetual present. It reinforces what Marita Sturken identified as a national sense of innocence, and it militates against the development of an historical understanding of the causes and consequences of 9/11. In the final section of this article, I reflect on ways in Ground Zero might have been designed to create a site where residents, citizens, and visitors might have come together to mourn, reflect on, and seek to understand the events of 9/11.

Allergy and Lung Injury among Rescue Workers Exposed to the World Trade Center Disaster Assessed 17 Years after Exposure to Ground Zero

2020 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis L. Caruana ◽  
Po Hsuan Huang ◽  
Jonathan C. Li ◽  
Keely Cheslack-Postava ◽  
Anthony M. Szema
Keyword(s):  
Lung Injury ◽  
World Trade ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Ground Zero ◽  
World Trade Center Disaster ◽  
Rescue Workers ◽  
The World ◽  
Trade Center
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