Author : D. Bell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 2006-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 023062748X
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 book is an incisive treatment of the ways in which the study of social memory can inform global politics analysis.
Author : Erica Resende
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134692889
This work seeks to provide a comprehensive and accessible survey of the international dimension of trauma and memory and its manifestations in various cultural contexts. Drawing together contributions and case studies from scholars around the globe, the book explores the international political dimension of feeling, suffering, forgetting, remembering and memorializing traumatic events and to investigate how they function as social practices for overcoming trauma and creating social change. Divided into two sections, the book maps out the different theoretical debates and then moves on to examine emerging themes such as ontological security, social change, gender, religion, foreign policy & natural disasters. Throughout the chapters, the editors consider the social, political and ethical implications of forgetting and remembering traumatic events in world politics Showcasing how trauma and memory deepen our understanding of IR, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, memory and trauma studies and security studies.
Author : Duncan Bell
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230006560
Memory, Trauma and World Politics focuses on the effect that the memory of traumatic episodes, and especially war and genocide, has on shaping contemporary political identities. The interdisciplinary team of contributors employ a variety of theoretical perspectives to explore a diverse range of cases from around the world. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich Memory, Trauma and World Politics is an incisive treatment of the ways in which the study of social memory can inform the analysis of global politics.
Author : Jenny Edkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521534208
In this interesting study, Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, famines, genocides and terrorism, and questions the assumed role of commemorations as simply reinforcing state and nationhood. Taking examples from the World Wars, Vietnam, the Holocaust, Kosovo and September 11th, Edkins offers a thorough discussion of practices of memory such as memorials, museums, remembrance ceremonies, the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress and the act of bearing witness. She examines the implications of these commemorations in terms of language, political power, sovereignty and nationalism. She argues that some forms of remembering do not ignore the horror of what happened but rather use memory to promote change and to challenge the political systems that produced the violence of wars and genocides in the first place. This wide-ranging study embraces literature, history, politics and international relations, and makes a significant contribution to the study of memory.
Author : Peter Leese
Publisher : Springer
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 25,59 MB
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 3319334700
This collection investigates the social and cultural history of trauma to offer a comparative analysis of its individual, communal, and political effects in the twentieth century. Particular attention is given to witness testimony, to procedures of personal memory and collective commemoration, and to visual sources as they illuminate the changing historical nature of trauma. The essays draw on diverse methodologies, including oral history, and use varied sources such as literature, film and the broadcast media. The contributions discuss imaginative, communal and political responses, as well as the ways in which the later welfare of traumatized individuals is shaped by medical, military, and civilian institutions. Incorporating innovative methodologies and offering a thorough evaluation of current research, the book shows new directions in historical trauma studies.
Author : Michael S. Roth
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0231145683
"Memory, trauma, and history is comprosed of essays that fall into five overlapping subject areas: history and memory; psychoanalysis and trauma; postmodernism, scholarship, and cultural politics; photography and representation; and liberal education." -- Introduction.
Author : Polly Jones
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0300187211
Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities' initiation and management of the de-Stalinization process and explores a wide range of popular reactions to the new narratives of Stalinism in party statements and in Soviet literature and historiography. Engaging with the dynamic field of memory studies, this book represents the first sustained comparison of this process with other countries' attempts to rethink their own difficult pasts, and with later Soviet and post-Soviet approaches to Stalinism.
Author : Emma Hutchison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,55 MB
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107095018
A systematic examination of emotions and world politics, showing how emotions underpin political agency and collective action after trauma.
Author : Ian Buchanan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2006-07-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0748627170
This volume joins the pragmatic philosophy of Deleuze to current affairs. The twelve new essays in this volume use a contemporary context to think through and with Deleuze. Engaging the here and now, the contributors use the Deleuzian theoretical apparatus to think about issues such as military activity in the Middle East, refugees, terrorism, information and communication, and the State. The book is aimed both at specialists of Deleuze and those who are unfamiliar with his work but who are interested in current affairs. Incorporating political theory and philosophy, culture studies, sociology, international studies, and Middle Eastern studies, the book is designed to appeal to a wide audience.
Author : Kathrin Bachleitner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 0192895362
This book traces the influence of collective memory in International Relations (IR). It inquires where a country's memory first emerges and how it guides states through time in world politics, and locates the origins of national memory in political strategies within the internationalenvironment.The study then turns to the domestic landscape, where among a country's public, it finds memory to be the carrier of national identity over time. From there, however, the analysis reverts to the international here: in the medium term, collective memory begins to channel international statebehaviour, whereas, in the long run, it circumvents a country's normative horizons. In this book, collective memory is thus assumed to become manifest in world politics in four varying forms: as a country's political strategy, as its public identity, as underwriting its international statebehaviour, and finally, as a source for its national values. All four theorized manifestations of memory are tested in a comparative study of (West) Germany and Austria and the impact their diverse post-war interpretations of the Nazi legacy had on their international policies over time. With theillustrative help of the empirical cases, the book not only explores whether collective memory has an influence on political outcomes but how and why it matters for IR.
