Trauma and the Memory of Politics - Softcover

Edkins, Jenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521534208 ISBN 13: 9780521534208

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, famines, genocides and terrorism. She argues that remembrance does not have to be nationalistic but can instead challenge the political systems that produced the violence. Using examples from the World Wars, Vietnam, the Holocaust, Kosovo and September 11th, Edkins analyzes the practices of memory rituals through memorials, museums and remembrance ceremonies. This wide-ranging study embraces literature, history, politics and international relations, in an original contribution to the study of memory.

About this title

Book Description:

Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, famines, genocides and terrorism. She argues that remembrance does not have to be nationalistic but can instead challenge the political systems that produced the violence in the first place. Taking examples from the World Wars, Vietnam, the Holocaust, Kosovo and September 11th, Edkins discusses the practices of memory such as memorials, museums and remembrance ceremonies. This wide-ranging study embraces literature, history, politics and international relations, and makes an original contribution to the study of memory.

About the Author:

Jenny Edkins is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. Her publications include Whose Hunger? Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid (2000), Poststructuralism and International Relations: Bringing the Political Back In (1999) and, with Nalini Persram and Veronique Pin-Fat, Sovereignty and Subjectivity (1999).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0521534208
• ISBN 13: 9780521534208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284