Eyerman / Adams / Steinmetz The Assassination of Theo van Gogh

From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9144-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 230 Seiten

Reihe: Politics, History, and Culture

Explores the motives, mass media attention and narrative interpretation of the November 2004 murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eyerman, Ron

Adams, Julia

Steinmetz, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

1. Assassination as Public Performance: The Murder of Theo van Gogh 1

2. Mediating Social Drama 24

3. Perpetrators and Victims 56

4. The Clash of Civilizations: A Multicultural Drama 102

5. A Dutch Dilemma: Free Speech, Religious Freedom, and Multicultural Tolerance 141

6. Cultural Trauma and Social Drama 161

Notes 175

Bibliography 203

Index 215

Über Autor(innen)

Ron Eyerman is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. He is the author of Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity and Between Culture and Politics: Intellectuals in Modern Society; a co-author of Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Traditions in the Twentieth Century; and a co-editor of Myth, Meaning, and Performance: Toward a New Cultural Sociology of the Arts.