This week, urban anthropologist Elizabeth Greenspan and her book, battle for ground zero inside the political struggle to rebuild the World Trade Center. In it, the Harvard University lecturer exposes the bitterness of which many different groups stake a claim to the real estate they considered sacred to so many. This program is about one hour. Host im kenneth feinberg, and i have a great distinct pleasure of chatting for a few minutes with elizabeth greensp greenspan, anthropologist, lecturer at Harvard University, and the author of a very important new book, battle for ground zero inside the political struggle to rebuild the World Trade Center. This battle is not about al qaeda and its not about the 9 11 terrorist attacks, at least not directly. What it is about is a social, anthropological study of the various political, social and other factors that went into the final decisions surrounding the site at the World Trade Center. Why, when, what the problems were. Elizabeth greenspan,
World trade center. Why, when, what the problems were. Elizabeth, welcome to after words. Thank guest great. Thank you. Great to be here. Host what motivated do you publish the book. To motivate and take the time for the research. What were the underlying reason you decided focus on the struggle to reconstruct the World Trade Center . Guest in the fall of 2001 i was a graduate student in philadelphia studying urban studies and anthropology. I was interested in cities. I had become i was becoming in interested in how cities reconstruct themselves after war, violence, and destruction. I was thinking about a project in berlin and studying what the city had done in the 90s after the wall came down. There were fascinating things they were doing to mark the wall and the different moment in history. I was putting together an independent study with a professor that fall, then 9 11 happened. It was incredibly powerful event. It was clear that so many things are going to be changing from that mo
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