ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the theoretical and conceptual arguments that underpin the model of remediated witnessing. The chapter then utilises the model of remediated witnessing to facilitate a discussion on affective responses to the events of 11 September 2001. The events of 11 September 2001 represent a major watershed moment at the beginning of the post-millennial period, which exacerbated pre-existing neo-imperialist attitudes, in addition to prompting a rise in Islamophobia. By working to understand the symbolic resonance of ‘9/11’ and by exploring the ideological frameworks that underpin the ‘War on Terror’, this chapter contextualises the neo-imperial discourses within which Muslim women are perceived, deployed, and mediated in the West. Exploring key affective responses to the events of 11 September 2001—melancholia, pain, and hatred—this chapter begins to set out the ways in which remediated witnessing makes sense of meaning.
