期刊名称：PLATFORM : Journal of Media and Communication
电子版ISSN：1836-5132
出版年度：2017
卷号：8
期号：2
页码：40-52
出版社：University of Melbourne
摘要：This paper explores the impacts of terrorism, and of consequent disability, on three people. Twoparticipants have a direct, and one has an indirect, experience of terrorism, but all have been deeplyimpacted by their encounter in the physicality of everyday existence. Using storytelling, as described byHannah Arendt (1998), as the medium for exploring the daily lives of people directly affected by aterrorist attack, I choose here to focus on the ways in which they describe their disability, or theirrelationship to disability, and the meanings they create around their direct experience of terrorism. I seekto understand the ethical struggles of life after a terrorist attack. I ask how does one live an ethical life, alife that seems ‘right’ in the eyes of the person concerned? Through two stories, that of “Phoenix”, a victimof the 2002 Bali Bombings, and of Gill Hicks, a survivor of the 2005 London bombings, and her partnerKarl Falzon, I explore how the long-term physical effects of terrorism play a significant role in the waysvictims and survivors reassert themselves into their social world. Part of the agency implicit in thestorytelling shared by these participants is encapsulated in the perceptions that these people are survivors,not victims; and this also impacts upon the various ways in which they approach living a good life with adisability and as a visible reminder of the randomness and extraordinary ferocity of terrorist attacks.
