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Trauma and the Memory of Politics » (1st Edition)
Authors: Jenny Edkins
ISBN-13: 9780521534208, ISBN-10: 0521534208
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Jenny Edkins
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).
Book Synopsis
A study of trauma and memory located in politics and international relations.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations | ||
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Introduction: trauma, violence and political community | 1 |
| 2 | Survivor memories and the diagnosis of trauma: the Great War and Vietnam | 20 |
| 3 | War memorials and remembrance: the London Cenotaph and the Vietnam Wall | 57 |
| 4 | Concentraton camp memorials and museums: Dachau and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum | 111 |
| 5 | Testimony and sovereign power after Auschwitz: Holocaust witness and Kosovo refugees | 175 |
| 6 | Conclusion: the return of the political - the memory of politics | 215 |
| Bibliography | 234 | |
| Index | 250 |
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