Title: Memory, trauma and world politics : reflections on the relationship between past and present /
Authors: Bell, Duncan, 1976-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2006
Subjects: World politics; World politics; Collective memory.; Collective memory; International relations.; Political science & theory.; POLITICAL SCIENCE Globalization.; Politics and Government.; Social theory.; Social, group or collective psychology.; World politics
Abstract: 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 analyse 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.
Contents: 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 and 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 and Y.J. Hoang -- Remembering to Forget/Forgetting to Remember / M. Zehfuss.