Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

By Jeffrey C Alexander. 2004

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Preface 1. Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma: Jeffrey C. Alexander 2. Psychological Trauma and Cultural Trauma: Neil J. Smelser 3. Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity: Ron Eyerman 4. Triumph and Trauma: Bernhard Giesen 5. The Trauma of Social Change: A Case of Postcommunist Societies: Piotr Sztompka 6. On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The "Holocaust" from War Crime to Trauma Drama: Jeffrey C. Alexander Epilogue: September 11, 2001, as Cultural Trauma: Neil J. Smelser Bibliography Index

Subfields: Anthropology, Clinical Psychology, Political Science and International Relations

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Citations in the corpus

• Unpacking the Unspoken: Silence in Collective Memory and Forgetting (2010, background): “On a different level of analysis, one can examine issues of change and continuity in how individuals speak and keep silent about “cultural traumas” (Alexander 2004) as social conditions transformed (Stein 2009).”