Memory, Trauma and World Politics Reflections on the Relationship Between Past and Present

This book focuses on the effect that the memory of traumatic episodes, and especially war and genocide, has on shaping contemporary political identities.

DUNCAN BELL is Lecturer in International Relations, University of Cambridge, and Fellow, Christ's College Cambridge.

Introduction: Memory, Trauma and World Politics--D.S.A.Bell * We Could Remember it for you Wholesale: Myths, Monuments and the Constitution of National Memories--J.Bartelson * Notes on the Memory Boom: War, Remembrance, and the Uses of the Past--J.Winter * From the Theodicy of Disprivilege to the Tribunalization of history--J.Olick * Remembering Relationality: Trauma Time and Politics--J.Edkins * Bewitched by the Past: Social Memory, Trauma and International Relations--K.Fierke * Mourning, Melancholia and Violence--L.Ray * Trauma Culture: Remembering and Forgetting in the New South Africa--L.Meskell * Memorials to Injustice--S.Feuchtwang * Remembering and Forgetting the Korean War: From Trauma to Reconciliation--R.Bleiker & Y.Hoang * Remembering to Forget/Forgetting to Remember--M.Zehfuss Introduction: Memory, Trauma and World Politics--D.S.A.Bell * We Could Remember it for you Wholesale: Myths, Monuments and the Constitution of National Memories--J.Bartelson * Notes on the Memory Boom: War, Remembrance, and the Uses of the Past--J.Winter * From the Theodicy of Disprivilege to the Tribunalization of history--J.Olick * Remembering Relationality: Trauma Time and Politics--J.Edkins * Bewitched by the Past: Social Memory, Trauma and International Relations--K.Fierke * Mourning, Melancholia and Violence--L.Ray * Trauma Culture: Remembering and Forgetting in the New South Africa--L.Meskell * Memorials to Injustice--S.Feuchtwang * Remembering and Forgetting the Korean War: From Trauma to Reconciliation--R.Bleiker & Y.Hoang * Remembering to Forget/Forgetting to Remember--M.Zehfuss