Memory, Trauma and World Politics

Reflections on the Relationship Between Past and Present
2006. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-230-24745-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 275 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bell, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Memory, Trauma and World Politics; D.S.A.Bell We Could Remember 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 the Korean War: From Trauma to Reconciliation; R.Bleiker & Y.J.Hoang Remembering to Forget/Forgetting to Remember; M.Zehfuss

Über Autor(innen)

JENS BARTELSON Professor of International Relations, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
ROLAND BLEIKER Reader in Peace Studies and Political Theory, University of Queensland, Australia
CHARES DEMETRIOU Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ohio University, USA
JENNY EDKINS Professor of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
STEPHAN FEUCHTWANG Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
K. M. FIERKE Professor of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, UK
YOUNG-JU HOANG Lecturer in International Politics, Pusan University of Foreign Studies, South Korea
LYNN MESKELL Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University, USA
JEFFREY K. OLICK Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia, USA
LARRY RAY Professor of Sociology, University of Kent, Cantebury, UK
JAY WINTER Charles J. Stille Professor of History, Yale University, USA
MAJA ZEHFUSS Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Warwick, UK