Disaster's Culture of Utopia after 9/11 and Katrina: Fiction, Documentary, Memorial

This dissertation examines the cleared spaces after disaster and the way the rhetoric of utopian projects is taken up by corporate and privatizing ventures to mask projects that seek to shut down participation in the public sphere. Chapter one argues that there are mechanisms within societies that c...

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Main Author: Donica, Joseph Lloyd
Format: Others
Published: OpenSIUC 2012
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Online Access:https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/460
https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1460&context=dissertations