Narrating Trauma

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Narrating Trauma

On the Impact of Collective Suffering

Cultural studies Social theory Genocide and ethnic cleansing

Authors: Ronald Eyerman, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Elizabeth Butler Breese

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 23rd October 2015

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 1 Mb

ISBN: 9781317255680


Exploring the Cultural and Social Construction of Trauma

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.

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