Memory, Trauma, and Identity

• Main Author: Eyerman, Ron (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Cultural Sociology
• Subjects: Sociology.; Culture.; Historical sociology.; Cultural studies.; Sociological Theory.; Sociology of Culture.; Historical Sociology.; Cultural Studies.

This volume brings together Ron Eyerman's most important interventions in the field of cultural trauma and offers an accessible entry point into the origins and development of this theory and a framework of an analysis that has now achieved the status of a research paradigm. This collection of...

Table of Contents:

• 1: Introduction: Identity, Memory, and Trauma
• 2: The Past in the Present: Culture and the Transmission of Memory
• 3: Intellectuals and Cultural Trauma
• 4: The Assassination of Harvey Milk
• 5: Social Theory and Cultural Trauma
• 6: The Worst Was the Silence: The Unfinished Drama of the Katyn Massacre
• 7: Cultural Trauma, Collective Memory and the Vietnam War
• 8: Perpetrator Trauma and Collective Guilt
• 9. Conclusion: Ron Eyerman and the Study of Cultural Trauma.