Title Political mourning : identity and responsibility in the wake of tragedy / Heather Pool

Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 239 pages) Contents Introduction. The Rise of Black Lives Matter -- Why Do Some Deaths Matter Politically? -- Chapter One: Making Mourning Political -- Death and Politics -- Making Mourning Political -- Identity and the Borders of Belonging -- Responsibility -- A Process Model of Political Mourning -- Tracing Political Mourning in Politics -- Chapter Two: The Triangle Fire: State Responsibility for White Workers -- Making Loss Visible: The Strike, the Fire, and a March of Mourning -- Agency, Collective Responsibility, and Political Change -- Why Did this Fire Matter? -- Chapter Three: Mourning Emmett Till: Federal Responsibility for Racial Violence -- Contested Identities: Race and Law -- Making Loss and Mourning Visible -- The Failure of Law and Recognition of Collective Responsibility -- Mobilizing Mourning for Political Change -- Chapter Four: September 11: Sovereign Mourning -- Rejecting International Responsibility -- Contested Identities and American Responses to Terrorism Before 9/11 -- Depoliticizing Visibility: Intimate Loss and Public Spectacle -- Political Actors Taking Their Grief-Wrath Public to Make War Instead of Law -- Eschewing Law and Responsibility -- Political Change: The PATRIOT Act and the War on Terror -- Conclusion: Sovereign Mourning -- Chapter Five: The Democratic Deficit of All Lives Matter -- Black Lives Matter as Political Mourning -- The Democratic Deficit of All Lives Matter -- The Embodied Democracy of Black Lives Matter -- Conclusion -- Chapter Six: Conclusion -- The (Normatively Desirable) Possibilities of Political Mourning -- The (Normatively Undesirable) Possibilities of Political Mourning -- Unanswered Questions -- Conclusion -- Afterword: The COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020 Summary "Political Mourning examines four case studies-the Triangle Fire, Emmett Till's murder, the attacks of September 11th, and the Black Lives Matter movement-to shed light on moments when everyday people died, when their deaths were the basis of calls for political change, and when such a change actually occurred"-- Provided by publisher Notes This work is based in part on the author's dissertation in Political Science from the University of Washington Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 12, 2021) Subject Till, Emmett, 1941-1955 -- Death and burial -- Public opinion SUBJECT Till, Emmett, 1941-1955. fast (OCoLC)fst00228763 Subject Triangle Shirtwaist Company -- Fire, 1911 -- Public opinion SUBJECT Triangle Shirtwaist Company. fast (OCoLC)fst00583984 Subject September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 -- Public opinion Black lives matter movement -- Public opinion Grief -- Political aspects -- United States Bereavement -- Political aspects -- United States Social problems -- United States -- Case studies Public opinion. Social problems. United States. Genre/Form Academic theses. Case studies. Academic theses. Thèses et écrits académiques. Form Electronic book LC no. 2020038673 ISBN 1439918945 9781439918944

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