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Lessons from Imagining the World Trade Center Site: An Examination of Public Space and Culture
Author(s) -
Low Setha M.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2002.33.3.395
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , public culture , democracy , world trade center , sociology , public space , space (punctuation) , center (category theory) , public relations , media studies , political science , law , politics , terrorism , engineering , architectural engineering , linguistics , philosophy , chemistry , crystallography , embedded system
The World Trade Center site allows anthropologists and educators to reflect on the relationship of public space to culture, and to consider the symbolic importance of this site for imagining the public culture of the future. Public spaces in the city have the potential of being places of learning and democratic practice, but the trend toward increased surveillance and policing of these spaces, exaggerated by September 11, makes this potential difficult to realize. Anthropologists and educators interested in the nexus of education, place, and culture should consider becoming involved in this imagining process and insert themselves into the ongoing debate in order to preserve spaces for learning and democracy.