Trauma and Public Memory

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-40679-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 231 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4091 g

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of our televisions and cinemas.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodall, J.

Lee, C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Jane Goodall and Christopher Lee PART I: OVERVIEWS 1. ''But Why Should You People at Home Not Know?': Sacrifice as a Social fact in the Public Memory of War; Christopher Lee 2. Trauma, Dispossession and Narrative Truth: 'Seeds of the Nation' of South Sudan; Wendy Richards 3. Trauma and the Stoic Foundations of Sympathy; Jane Goodall 4. Unremembered: Memorial, Sentimentality, Dislocation; Laurie Johnson PART II: INTERVIEWS 5. Ross Anderson, Clinical Psychologist 6. Therese Lee, Emergency Nursing Specialist 7. Norman Fry, Disaster Response Co-ordinator, Toowoomba Regional Council 8. Sue Hewett, Senior Recovery Officer and Tanya Milligan, Chair of Human and Social Response Committee for the Lockyer Valley Council 9. Mark Willacy, Foreign Correspondent Australian Broadcasting Commission PART III: REFLECTIONS 10. Unburied Trauma and the Exhumation of History: An American Genealogy; Lindsay Tuggle 11. The Atrocity Tour; Lindsay Barrett 12. Regaining Lost Humanity: Dealing with Trauma in Exile; Robert Mason and Geoffrey Parkes 13. Popular Entertainments as Survival Strategies During World War Two; Victor Emeljanow 14. A Soldier's Perspective; Richard Gehrman Conclusion Works Cited Index ?

Über Autor(innen)

Ross Anderson, consulting psychologist, Australia
Lindsay Barrett, University of Technology, Sydney
Victor Emeljanow, University of Newcastle, Australia
Norman Fry, Toowoomba Regional Council, Australia
Richard Gehrmann, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Jane Goodall, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Sue Hewitt, Red Cross, Australia
Lawrence Johnson, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Christopher Lee, Griffith University, Australia
Therese Lee, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Australia
Robert Mason, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Tanya Milligan, Human and Social Response Committee, Australia
Geoffrey Parkes, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Wendy Richards, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Lindsay Tuggle, University of Sydney, Australia
Mark Willacy, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Australia