Memory, trauma and world politics: reflections on the relationship between past and present

Memory, Trauma and World Politics focuses on the effect that the memory of traumatic episodes (especially war and genocide) has on shaping contemporary political identities. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this bookis an incisive treatment of the ways in which the study of social memory can inform global politics analysis. INDICE: Introduction: Memory, Trauma and World Politics; D.Bell - We CouldRemember It for You Wholesale: Myths, Monuments and the Constitution of National Memories; J.Bartelson - Notes on the Memory Boom: War, Remembrance, and the Uses of the Past; J.Winter - From Theodicy to Ressentiment: Trauma and the Ages of Compensation; J.K.Olick& C.Demetriou - Remembering Relationality: Trauma Time and Politics; J.Edkins - Bewitched by the Past: Social Memory, Trauma and International Relations; K.M.Fierke - Mourning, Melancholia and Violence; L.Ray - Trauma Culture: Remembering and Forgetting in the New South Africa; L.Meskell - Memorials to Injustice; S.Feuchtwang - Remembering and Forgetting theKorean War: From Trauma to Reconciliation; R.Bleiker& Y.J.Hoang - Rememberingto Forget/Forgetting to Remember; M.Zehfuss

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24745-1
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 296
• Fecha Publicación: 19/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés