Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 147989656X ISBN 13 : 9781479896561

Editeur : New York University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies reflects on the study of trauma and how multidisciplinary approaches lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding to this burgeoning field of inquiry. The original essays within this collection cover topics such as female suicide bombers from the Chechen Republic, singing prisoners in Iranian prison camps, sexual assault and survivor advocacy, and families facing the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. As it proceeds, Critical Trauma Studies never loses sight of the way those who study trauma as an academic field, and those who experience, narrate, and remediate trauma as a personal and embodied event, inform one another. Theoretically adventurous and deeply particular, this book aims to advance trauma studies as a discipline that transcends intellectual boundaries, to be mapped but also to be unmoored from conceptual and practical imperatives. Remaining embedded in lived experiences and material realities, Critical Trauma Studies frames the field as both richly unbounded and yet clearly defined, historical, and evidence-based.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Monica J. Casper is Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and an affiliated faculty member in the School of Sociology and the Africana Studies Program at the University of Arizona. Her publications include Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility.

Eric
Wertheimer is
Professor of English and Associate Vice Provost of the Graduate College at
Arizona State University, where he is the Founding Director of the Center for Critical Inquiry
and Cultural Studies. He is the author of Underwriting: The Poetics of Insurance in Early America and Imagined Empires: Incas, Aztecs, and the New
World of American Literature, 1771-1876, as well as many works of poetry
and prose. Mylar, his first book of
poetry, was published by BlazeVOX in 2012.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 147989656X
• ISBN 13: 9781479896561
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Casper Monica, Wertheimer Eric
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible