Alexander argues that traumas are not merely psychological but collective experiences, and that trauma work plays a key role in defining the origins and outcomes of critical social conflicts. He outlines a model of trauma work that relates interests of carrier groups, competing narrative identifications of victim and perpetrator, utopian and dystopian proposals for trauma resolution, the performative power of constructed events, and the distribution of organizational resources.
Alexander explores these processes in richly textured case studies of cultural-trauma origins and effects, from the universalism of the Holocaust to the particularism of the Israeli right, from postcolonial battles over the Partition of India and Pakistan to the invisibility of the Rape of Nanjing in Maoist China. In a particularly controversial chapter, Alexander describes the idealizing discourse of globalization as a trauma-response to the Cold War.
Contemporary societies have often been described as more concerned with the past than the future, more with tragedy than progress. In Trauma: A Social Theory, Alexander explains why.
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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. 2012. 1st Edition. Paperback. * This is a new, original social theory of trauma by one of the world s leading social theorists. * Argues that traumas are not merely psychological but collective experiences and that they play a key role in defining the origins and outcomes of critical social conflicts. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 366. . . . . . Codice articolo V9780745649122
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Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Reminds the readers that working through trauma is not merely a matter of resurrecting burried memories but creating new ones. In this way, Alexander usefully beckons towards a future of cosmopolitan peace . It is a dream worth returning to in the 21st . Codice articolo 408526067
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