Abstract:This essay analyzes competing discourses of resilience across United States and United Kingdom online news and blog coverage following the 2005 London 7/7 subway bombings. More specifically, it tracks how dominant articulations of resilience reflect an emerging Anglo-American sensibility that created constraints and possibilities for British national identity and security policy We argue that the prevailing construction of Londoners as resilient represents a budding form of cosmopolitan nationalism that may ha… Show more
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