This book is a dialectic and multi-perspective examination of
classed traumas in late modernity. The primary anchoring question
is whether and how class becomes a condition of possibility for
coping with traumas. What does it mean to experience
deindustrialization, crises, or domestic violence from a specific
class position? Do the coping mechanisms differ along the lines of
class, gender, race, age, or ethnicity? The text negotiates such
questions, travelling back and forth from psychoanalysis to
sociology and from the global to the local, while critically
engaging with memories, narratives, and myths engraved into social
and personal histories. Through a dialogic quest for what is
silenced, and what is salient within oral, written, and visual
testimonies, it foregrounds what the upper classes prefer to
neglect: the traumatizing core of the new class divide. Rather than
idealizing or vilifying the dominated, this study calls for an
exploration of practices, narrations, and spaces whereby alienation
and integration co-exist antagonistically, producing hybrid and
fragmented, but also potentially transformative, subjectivities.
This book will be of interest to scholars of humanities and social
sciences, primarily for those studying social stratification and
inequalities, sociology of emotions, identity theory, trauma and
memory, political psychoanalysis, labour history, and ethnography.
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