Memory, Trauma and World Politics: Reflections on the Relationship Between Past and Present [Hardcover]

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.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

'Memory, Trauma and World Politics is a fascinating and long overdue study of memory as a multidisciplinary phenomenon...a theoretically rich and imaginative volume that thoughtfully and convincingly navigates the reader through the multiple ways in which memory is proven to be indispensable for the understanding of modern politics.' - Alla Mirzoyan, Political Studies Review

'This collection, unusually integrated for an edited volume, treats questions of memory and trauma in world politics in a critical, interdisciplinary fashion. The range of conceptual and empirical material offered is both novel and rich, and specialists and students alike will benefit greatly from its scholarship.' - Professor David Campbell, Durham University, UK

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