Children's Expressive Culture in Light of September 11, 2001

Play and games relating to September 11 reflect children's strategies for making sense with nonsense. This essay calls for the reexamination of play and recess as nontrivial parts of schooling and as sources for anthropological research.     

Theorizing Pedagogic Practices in the Contexts of Marketization and of September 11, 2001, and Its Aftermath

Reflecting on a social theory course taught during autumn 2001,1 argue that progressive educators should theorize pedagogic practices in the contexts of the marketizing of higher education and the events of September 11. Such theorizing can demonstrate the limits of marketizing forces and can provide space where critical thought can help create alternatives to both marketizing forces and to the post–September 11 intensification of Third World rage and First World aggression and repression.     

Orthostatic panic as a key Vietnamese reaction to traumatic events: the case of September 11, 2001

This article discusses a culturally specific response to traumatic events: orthostatic panic attacks among Vietnamese refugees. We compared the rate and severity of orthostatic panic as well as the rates and severity of associated flashbacks a month before and a month after September 11, 2001. After that date, the rate and severity of orthostatic panic greatly increased, as did the rate and severity of associated flashbacks. The central role of orthostatic panic as a response to traumatic events is illustrated through a patient's vignette. An explanation of why September 11 so profoundly influenced this population is adduced, including an explanation of why it resulted in considerable worsening of orthostatic panic.     

What Madness Prompts, Reason Writes: New York City September 11–October 2, 2001

This personal narrative describes the use of ethnographic data collection as a means for its author, a New York City resident, to take stock of local reaction and response to the events of September 11 by documenting arid analyzing the writing New Yorkers posted in public spaces during the three weeks following the attacks on the World Trade Center.     

Nightmare frequency as a function of age, gender, and September 11, 2001: Findings from an Internet questionnaire.

Retrospective estimates of nightmare frequency for a sample of 23,990 respondents to an Internet questionnaire (female: N = 19,367, mean age = 24.9 ± 10.14 years; male: N = 4,623; mean age = 25.5 ± 10.81) were evaluated as a function of age, gender, and pre- versus post-September 11, 2001. Female respondents reported more frequent monthly nightmares (4.44 ± 6.71) than did male respondents (3.39 ± 6.07), and this result was seen for all age strata younger than 60. Also, for female respondents, nightmare frequency increased from ages 10-19 to 20-39 then decreased monotonically to ages 50-59. For male respondents, nightmare frequency was stable from ages 10-19 to 30-39 then decreased to ages 50-59. An increase in nightmare frequency was observed post-September 11 only for male respondents-particularly for 10- to 29-year-olds. This increase was sustained 2 years later. These effects were maintained when dream recall was held constant. Results replicate, in a single sample, previously published gender and age effects and provide new evidence that the nightmares of males may be differentially sensitive to traumatic events for which victims and/or perpetrators are primarily male. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The Overall Situation in the South China Sea in the New Millennium: Before and After the September 11 Terrorist Attacks

This contribution reviews the overall situation in the South China Sea (SCS) between 2000 and June 2002. A number of important new developments and policy events have occurred during this period, including: the expansion of India's military presence from the Indian Ocean into the SCS; the efforts taken by Japan to promote cooperation in the SCS to deal with maritime security issues; the increase of military exercises conducted by both the claimants and nonclaimants in the SCS; the improvement of diplomatic relationships among the claimants, in particular, between China and the member states of ASEAN; the election of George W. Bush as U.S. President; the EP-3 incident and the September 11 terrorist attacks. These developments and events have the potential to affect peace and stability in the SCS. The changing security configuration of the SCS and possible responses of the claimants to the new strategic framework after the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as their implications for managing potential conflicts in the SCS, are discussed.­     

Narrating September 11: Race, Gender, and the Play of Cultural Identities

This article considers the September 11 tragedy as an event that has created a powerful experience—an astonishing and unthinkable "breach" from the expected and routine—that has riveted the American public and provoked personal storytelling. September 11 and its aftermath have provided an occasion for rethinking and reworking cultural identity. We explore how September 11 and subsequent events have been experienced, constructed, and narrated by African American women, primarily from working-class and low-income backgrounds. These stories, and the commentaries and discussions that surround them, provide vehicles for these women to ponder what sort of social contexts they inhabit, within what sort of subject positions they are placed, and how these may be shifting in light of the attacks and America's "War on Terrorism. [Keywords: African American, narrative, gender, cultural identity]