Cultural trauma and constitution: Precursors of political traditions and collective identities
Journal: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology
Year: 2023

ABSTRACT The sociology of constitutions is a rather new domain. This paper adds to the legal and political literature on national constitutions and their effects on political traditions and collective identities by using the theory of cultural trauma. Using cultural sociology's analyses of national trauma, it demonstrates that the meaning of national constitutions and their particular articles become clear when juxtaposed with the narratives of trauma that national leaders eternalised in their s