Full Description
Through case studies that examine historical and contemporary crises across the world, the contributing writers to this volume explore the cultural and social construction of trauma. How do some events get coded as traumatic and others which seem equally painful and dramatic not? Why do culpable groups often escape being categorised as perpetrators? These are just some of the important questions answered in this collection. Some of the cases analysed include Mao's China, the Holocaust, the Katyn Massacre and the Kosovo trauma. Expanding the pioneering cultural approach to trauma, this book will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students of sociology.
Contents
Part 1 National Suffering and World War; Chapter 1 A Fire That Doesn't Burn?, Volker Heins, Andreas Langenohl; Chapter 2 The Cultural Trauma of a Fallen Nation, Akiko Hashimoto; Chapter 3 Revolutionary Trauma and Representation of the War, Rui Gao; Part 2 Ethnic Suffering and Civil War; Chapter 4 The Trauma of Kosovo in Serbian National Narratives, Ivana Spasi?; Chapter 5 Trauma Construction and Moral Restriction, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Shai M. Dromi; Chapter 6 The Drama of the Greek Civil War Trauma, Nicolas Demertzis; Chapter 7 1974 and Greek Cypriot Identity, Victor Roudometof, Miranda Christou; Part 3 The Performance of Suffering and Healing; Chapter 8 Extending Trauma Across Cultural Divides, Carlo Tognato; Chapter 9 Claiming Trauma through Social Performance, Elizabeth Butler Breese; Chapter 10 The Worst Was the Silence, Dominik Bartmanski, Ron Eyerman; Chapter 11 Unassimilable Otherness, Ari Sitas;
