In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. From the poetic to the personal, the theoretical to the historical, their essays_by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux, and others_are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is refreshing, and reflects the varied emotional and critical responses that bring meaning to this cataclysmal event.

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays—by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others—are collected in this volume, and were written in crisis within days and weeks of September 11. The immediacy of their writing is refreshing, and reflects the varied emotional and critical responses that bring meaning to this cataclysmal event. From the poetic to the personal, the theoretical to the historical, these contributions represent intelligent and reflective responses to crises like 9/11. This unique collection of essays represents a selfless act of sharing by poets and professors who tell us how they made sense of these tragic events, and predicts what the place of the humanities and the social sciences might hold in an age of terror. Lachrymal and elegiac, their words will stay with us for years to come. The articles were originally published in the journals Qualitative Inquiry and Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies.

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction: 9/11 in American Culture
Chapter 3
Chapter I: 9/11 AS EVENT
Chapter 4 Politics, Democracy and America
Chapter 5 Blood, Under the World, 9/22/01
Chapter 6 Terrorism and the Fate of Democracy After September 11th
Chapter 7 September 11, Terrorism, and Blowback
Chapter 8 The Dialectics of Terrorism: A Marxist Response to September 11
Chapter 9 Cultural Studies, Immanent War, Everyday Life
Chapter 10 What Relevance Cultural Studies Post-September 11th?
Chapter 11
Chapter TWO: 9/11 AS NARRATIVE, POETICS, AND PERSONAL STORIES
Chapter 12 One Face in the Crowd, Aftermath
Chapter 13 Bafflement, Terror, the Search for Meaning
Chapter 14 Posts Post September 11
Chapter 15 The Mourning After
Chapter 16 Grief in an Appalachian Register
Chapter 17 Listening to the Heartbeat of New York Poems
Chapter 18 Relationships-Responsibilities, Once Removed and Ever Connected
Chapter 19 Some Thoughts on Recovery
Chapter 20 What is Over? Ruminations From One Who Has Already Lived Through Another September 11
Chapter 21 What Will We Tell the Children?
Chapter 22 Media Matters
Chapter 23 Small World
Chapter 24 Week Four
Chapter 25 Drawing a Line in the Fog
Chapter 26 Policing the Porous: Electronic Civil Disobedience after 9/11
Chapter 27 Thank the Lord, It's a War to End all Wars . . . Or, How I Learned to Suspend Judgment and Love the Bomb
Chapter 28 Coming A
Chapter at the Seam
Chapter 29 9/11, Iran, and Americans' Knowledge of the U.S. Role in the World
Chapter 30 French Fries, Fezzes, and Minstrels: The Hollywoodization of Islam
Chapter 31 The WTC image complex: A critical view on a culture of the shifting image
Chapter 32 The Voices of Cultural Studies, Medicine and Interpretive Social Science
Chapter 33 After 9/11: Thinking About the Global, Thinking About the Post Colonial
Chapter 34 Working It Through: Interpretive Sociology After 9/11/01
Chapter 35 Higher Education and September 11th
Chapter 36 George Bush, Apocalypse Sometime Soon, And The American Imperium
Chapter 37 The Axis of Evil, Operation Infinite War, and Bush's Attacks on Democracy
Chapter 38 September 11 and the Global Implications of Interpretive Inquiry
Chapter 39 A Time for Butterflies and Salmon
Chapter 40 The Heart of the Matter
Chapter 41 September 11, 2001: Changing the Ways of the World
Chapter 42 Tenets of Terror
Chapter 43 Alone and Together: A Reflection for Qualitative Inquiry on the Terror Attack
Chapter 44 Educating Students from Abroad: Possibilities for Peace and Research
Chapter 45
Chapter THREE: LIVING IN THE PRESENT
Chapter 46 War Games
Chapter 47 Thoughts Beyond Fear
Chapter 48 Love Survives
Chapter 49 Take No Chances
Chapter 50 Show Me a Sign, Torn Shawl, Pipers
Chapter 51 A Walk in the Olive Grove
Chapter 52 From Sea to Shining Sea: Stories, Counterstories, and the Discourse of Patriotism
Chapter 53 Fieldnotes from Our War Zone: Living in America During the Aftermath of September Eleventh
Chapter 54 What Kind of Mother . . . ? An Ethnographic Short Story
Chapter 55 Poetry
Chapter 56 Happy
Chapter 57 9/11, Who are We?
Chapter 58 The Death of Ordinariness: Living, Learning, and Relating in the Age of Anxiety
Chapter 59 Democracy, Terrorism, and the Culture of Fear: The Politics of Public Time versus Emergency Time
Chapter 60 It's Your World, I'm Just trying to Explain It: Understanding our Epistemological and Methodological Challenges
Chapter 61 9/11 & The Poetics of Complicity: A Love Poem for a Hurt Nation
Chapter 62 Afterword
Chapter 63 Appendix A: Post 9/11 Timeline
Chapter 64 Appendix B: September 11 Web Resources