Securitization of Memorial Space

Nicholas S. Paliewicz is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Louisville. Marouf Hasian Jr. is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. He is the author of eleven books, including In the Name of Necessity: Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties and Colonial Legacies in Postcolonial Contexts: A Critical Rhetorical Examination of Legal Histories.

• Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Remembering 9/11 (In)Securities and the Impetus for National Commemoration at Ground Zero2. The Ambiguities and Insecurities of Ground Zero Space: How Dust and Shrines Threatened the Resecuritization of New York3. Risky Objects and the Force of Security During the Rebuilding of Ground Zero: (2002-2005)4. Policing Memory with Moral Authority: The Idealistic Visions of Family Members of the Deceased (2004-2014)5. Melancholic Commemoration and ""Policing"" at the National September 11 Memorial (2011-2014)6. Holocaust Memories and Counterterrorist Practices at Ground Zero7. Conclusion: How the National September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum Functions as a Political Platform for Legitimating Future U.S. InterventionismBibliography

“In The Securitization of Memorial Space Paliewicz and Hasian make a significant contribution to the field’s understanding of the rhetoric of memorials and museums. Their integration of rhetorical and critical theory brings enormous insight into the ways surveillance and control are practiced around, within, and through the memorial’s material rhetoric. This insight alone makes this book essential reading for those interested in public memory, space/place, and/or surveillance.”-George F. (Guy) McHendry Jr., assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Creighton University“An essential read for anyone interested in place and memory work in a post-9/11 culture. Paliewicz and Hasian offer an exhaustive review of literature surrounding the memory work at Ground Zero, and their critical analysis of the assemblages of public memory produced through the National September 11 Memorial and Memorial Museum offers significant insights into both the personal and global consequences of securitizing sites of trauma in the contemporary moment.”-Elinor Light, special assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Colorado State University