Memory, Trauma and World Politics

Reflections on the Relationship Between Past and Present
Herausgegeben:Bell, Duncan

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Produktbeschreibung

Perceptions of the past play a vital role in shaping the contemporary world. Memory, Trauma and World Politics brings together leading scholars from across the social sciences to investigate the varied and complex ways in which social memories of traumatic events, including war, genocide and political oppression, inform and construct individual and collective identities. Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives, they analyze issues including the possibilities for post-conflict reconciliation on the Korean peninsula, Taiwan, and the former Yugoslavia, the function of memory and forgetting in the evolution of the modern state, the relationship between trauma and ressentiment , the role of the Holocaust in shaping both German and Israeli political culture, of apartheid in current South African politics, and of 9/11 in the new world order. Theoretically innovative and thematically wide-ranging, Memory, Trauma and World Politics addresses some of the most pressing issues facing analysts of world politics today. This book investigates the varied and complex ways in which social memories of traumatic events, including war, genocide and political oppression, inform and shape individual and collective identities

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-24745-1
• 2006
• Seitenzahl: 275
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780230247451
• ISBN-10: 0230247458
• Artikelnr.: 28953587

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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

Rezensionen

'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

'The contributors to Memory, Trauma and World Politics present exciting, innovative work by introducing concepts of social and cultural trauma into the study of national and transnational politics. The volume represents an impressive diversity of methods and opinions and serves as an excellent guide to the field of collective memory and trauma studies.' - Wulf Kansteiner, Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, USA

'In a field filled with time-worn, banal security talk, Duncan Bell's Memory, Trauma and World Politics is a timely and well done shift of emphasis. It deserves wide circulation.' - Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i, USA

'Duncan Bell is...to be congratulated, not only for assembling a fine selection of innovative and wide-ranging scholars, but for bringing "memory" into the field of international relations.' Dan Stone, Journal of Genocide Research