Open AccessGuest Editors’ Introduction to the Special Issue
Author(s) -
Vonzell Agosto,
Muna Saleh,
Cathryn van Kessel
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
canadian social studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2564-1166
pISSN - 1191-162X
DOI - 10.29173/css28
Subject(s) - patriotism , racism , islamophobia , nexus (standard) , politics , sociology , prejudice (legal term) , power (physics) , social studies , social justice , economic justice , terrorism , social science , criminology , media studies , law , gender studies , political science , pedagogy , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , embedded system
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.