LEADER 03799nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910782005003321 005 20230207225558.0 010 $a0-292-79439-8 024 7 $a10.7560/717756 035 $a(CKB)1000000000533878 035 $a(OCoLC)234189583 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245678 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271077 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11205638 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271077 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10280757 035 $a(PQKB)10279701 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2348 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443209 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245678 035 $a(DE-B1597)588336 035 $a(OCoLC)1286806972 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292794399 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443209 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000533878 100 $a20080304d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhen the center is on fire$b[electronic resource] $epassionate social theory for our times /$fby Diane Harriford and Becky Thompson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71775-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction An Offering . . . Can We Talk? -- $tPart One Consciousness: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina -- $t1. Condoleezza Rice, W. E . B. Du Bois, and Double Consciousness -- $t2. Hurricane Katrina and Historical Memory -- $tPart Two Spirit: The 9/11 Attacks -- $t3. The 9/11 Attacks and Max Weber -- $t4. Moments of G race/Grace Undermined -- $tPart Three Labor: The Abu Ghraib Prison Abuses -- $t5. Karl Marx and Alienation -- $t6. Looking for Species Being -- $tPart Four Body: The Columbine School Shootings -- $t7. Émile Durkheim and Embodiment in the Age of the Internet -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn this lively and provocative book, two feminist public sociologists turn to classical social thinkers?W. E. B. Du Bois, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Émile Durkheim?to understand a series of twenty-first century social traumas, including the massacre at Columbine High School, the 9/11 attacks, the torture at Abu Ghraib prison, and Hurricane Katrina. Each event was overwhelming in its own right, while the relentless pace at which they occurred made it nearly impossible to absorb and interpret them in any but the most superficial ways. Yet, each uncovered social problems that cry out for our understanding and remediation. In When the Center Is on Fire, Becky Thompson and Diane Harriford assert that classical social theorists grappled with the human condition in ways that remain profoundly relevant. They show, for example, that the loss of "double consciousness" that Du Bois identified in African Americans enabled political elites to turn a blind eye to the poverty and vulnerability of many of New Orleans's citizens. The authors' compelling, sometimes irreverent, often searing interpretations make this book essential reading for students, activists, generations X, Y, and Z, and everybody bored by the 6 o'clock news. 606 $aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy 606 $aSociology 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$xPhilosophy 615 0$aSocial sciences$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aSociology. 676 $a301.0973 700 $aHarriford$b Diane Sue$01472189 701 $aThompson$b Becky W$01245510 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782005003321 996 $aWhen the center is on fire$93684890 997 $aUNINA