Tara Brabazon Knihy

Exploring the intersection of war and popular culture, the author critically examines how societal beliefs about war, whiteness, Christianity, modernity, and progress have shaped our understanding since September 11. Through probing questions and reclamation of cultural narratives, the book challenges prevailing assumptions and offers valuable insights. It serves as essential reading for scholars in cultural studies, media, journalism, creative writing, and terrorism studies, providing a thought-provoking analysis of contemporary cultural dynamics.

Focusing on the challenges faced by small, lesser-known cities post-Global Financial Crisis, this book explores their economic and social struggles while highlighting their often-overlooked strengths. It examines the decline in health services, education, and employment, emphasizing the need for innovative strategies to foster growth and recognition. By synthesizing current research, it advocates for building connections with other urban areas and showcases how creativity can thrive in these marginalized locations, offering valuable insights for policymakers.

The book critiques the decline of purpose in education, highlighting how the internet's overload of information leads to disengagement among learners. Tara Brabazon advocates for a transformative vision of education that emphasizes meaningful engagement with knowledge, positioning students as active participants rather than passive consumers. She encourages a rethinking of educational practices to foster critical thinking and creativity in the information age, aiming to revitalize the educational system for a more impactful learning experience.

Without the skills of media and information literacy, students and citizens wade through low quality online information that fills their day yet does not enable intellectual challenge, imagination and questioning. The author probes the social, political, and academic difficulties in managing large quantities of low quality information. But this book does not diagnose a crisis. Instead, it provides strategies to develop intellectual fitness that sorts the important from the irrelevant and the remarkable from the banal