Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue: Echoes of Terror(ism): International Contemplations and Reflections on 9/11

Bretton A. Varga; Muna Saleh; Cathryn van Kessel

doi:10.29173/css28

Guest Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue

Echoes of Terror(ism): International Contemplations and Reflections on 9/11

Authors

Bretton A. Varga University of California, Chico https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6367-4123
Muna Saleh Concordia University of Alberta https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4193-8615
Cathryn van Kessel University of Alberta https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7450-5963

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/css28

Keywords:

social studies, 9/11, Islamophobia, anti-Muslim racism, terrorism, curriculum, pedagogy

Abstract

As the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, we contemplate and reflect on the current social/political imagination of terror(ism) and U.S./Canadian patriotism. For educators seeking to unpack 9/11 and its reverberations, it is important to highlight Islamophobic and anti-Muslim racism, discrimination, prejudice, and violence, as well as to consider Muslim students’ lived experiences. (Re)thinking about whose voices are included (or not) within the nexus of sociopolitical power is an important step toward justice and then rapprochement within and beyond the classroom. We consider this assemblage of articles to be a distinctly communal effort that responds to and attempts to disrupt the (perpetual) echoes of terror(ism) which became amplified by/through the events of 9/11.

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Published

2021-07-12

Issue

Vol. 52 No. 2 (2021): Echoes of Terror(ism): International Contemplations and Reflections On 9/11

Section

Editor's Introduction

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