Memory and Trauma in International Relations: Theories, Cases and Debates [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction, Erica Resende and Dovile Budryte, Section I: theoretical approaches and debates, 1.Memory, trauma and ontological security Alexandria J. Innes and Brent J. Steele 2. Transitional justice: politics of memory and reconciliation Hun Joon Kim 3. Performing political apologies Erin Wilson and Roland Bleiker 4. Use of memory and trauma in foreign policymaking Douglas Becker 5. Natural disasters: trauma, political contestation and potential to precipitate social change Vanessa Pupavac Healing and reconciliation in contemporary post-conflict scenarios: securitization movement of war trauma in perspective Renata B. Ferreira