"A timely and sophisticated series of studies. Articulating diverse
strands of social theory with the historical episodes that have had
major affective resonances within national cultures, the volume as
a whole contributes significantly to our understanding of
relationships between collective affect and social
process."--Michael Shapiro, Professor of Political Science at the
University of Hawaii
"The fine and deeply argued essays in this book build a strong
case against a naturalistic theory of collective traumas. Traumas
are made, not born, claim the authors. And they brilliantly cast a
steely gaze on several social nightmares--the Nazi holocaust,
slavery in the United States, September 11, 2001--in order to limn
the social and cultural processes by which events come to be viewed
as threatening to the very identity of collectivities. Ultimately
this is a book about the nature of the very normative order that
gives meaning to the human condition."--Robin Wagner-Pacifici,
author of "Theorizing the Standoff
"With its rich range of empirical cases, this book will inspire
new debates across the social sciences about memory, collective
suffering, and coping."--Arjun Appadurai, Yale University
"Near the end of the 20th century, scholarly interest in
collective memory surged, spurred on both by re-examinations of the
Holocaust and other canonical sources of trauma, and by the rise of
a new set of institutionalized processes of collective memory-work.
It is the great merit of these essays to approach the problems of
collective trauma in sociological terms, as theorizable patterns in
socially and culturally organized processes. This is a vital
corrective to more naturalisticunderstandings and complement to
those focused more narrowly on psychology or textual
analysis."--Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research
Council
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