Eyerman / Sciortino The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization

Colonial Returnees in the National Imagination
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-27025-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 231 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This volume is first consistent effort to systematically analyze the features and consequences of colonial repatriation in comparative terms, examining the trajectories of returnees in six former colonial countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal). Each contributor examines these cases through a shared cultural sociology frame, unifying the historical and sociological analyses carried out in the collection. More particularly, the book strengthens and improves one of the most important and popular current streams of cultural sociology, that of collective trauma. Using a comparative perspective to study the trajectories of similarly traumatized groups in different countries allows for not only a thick description of the return processes, but also a thick explanation of the mechanisms and factors shaping them. Learning from these various cases of colonial returnees, the authors have been able to develop a new theoretical framework that may help cultural sociologists to explain why seemingly similar claims of collective trauma and victimhood garner respect and recognition in certain contexts, but fail in others.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eyerman, Ron

Sciortino, Giuseppe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Italian Decolonization: Multidirectional Migrations, Multidirectional Memories.- 3. Japanese Narratives of Decolonization and Repatriation from Manchuria.- 4. Trauma and the Last Dutch War in Indonesia, 1945-1949.- 5. Beyond the "Trauma": Legitimization and Revenge of the "Anciens du Congo".- 6. Pied-Noir Trauma and Identity in Postcolonial France, 1962-2010.- 7. Trauma and the Portuguese Repatriation: A Confined Collective Identity.- 8. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Ron Eyerman
is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA, and affiliated with the Department of Sociology at the University of Lund, Sweden. He is the author of 
Memory, Trauma, and Identity
(2019),
Cultural Trauma
(2001), and 
Music and Social Movements
(1998), among many other titles. His interests include cultural and social movement theory, critical theory, cultural studies, and the sociology of the arts.
Giuseppe Sciortino
is Professor of Sociology at the Università di Trento, Italy. He is the author of 
Rebus Immigrazione
 (2017) and the co-author of 
Great Minds: Encounters with Social Theory
 (2011, with G. Poggi). His interests include cultural sociology, social solidarity, and international migration studies.