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9/11 discourse competition to fix meanings and subsequent actions

After 9/11 there was a powerful discursive competition to fix particular meanings to that event and from those meanings would flow particular actions deemed appropriate by virtue of the meanings assigned.

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9/11 discourse competition to fix meanings and subsequent actions
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Power = authority to legitimise & define collective knowledge/meanings
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Power = social power to shape discourse
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Social knowledge & social facts are never value-neutral
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Social structures are powerful: can be very difficult to change
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