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Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

Alexander, Jeffrey C., Eyerman, Ron, Giesen, Bernard, Smelser, Neil J., Sztompka, Piotr·2004
DOI 10.1525/9780520936768
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In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"—and on this basis build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new and binding understandings of social responsibility. Looking at the "meaning making process" as an open-ended social dialogue in which strikingly different social narratives vie for influence, they outline a strongly constructivist approach to trauma and apply this theoretical model in a series of extensive case studies, including the Nazi Holocaust, slavery in the United States, and September 11, 2001.

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  • A sound democracy can only be built over the continuous revisiting and debating of the past, and trauma can only be healed by constructing collective, shared narratives about that trauma, never by imposing oblivion.

    “it is widely believed now that a sound democracy can only be built over the continuous revisiting and debating of the past and that it is only possible to heal trauma by constructing collective, shared narratives about that trauma, never by imposing oblivion (Alexander et al., 2004).”

    From Making things public: Archaeologies of the Spanish Civil War (2007) · cites this paper as Alexander et al., 2004

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Authors
Alexander, J. C., Eyerman, R., Giesen, B., Smelser, N. J., & Sztompka, P.
Publisher
University of California Press
Published
2004-03-22
DOI
10.1525/9780520936768
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