{"product_id":"9780745649115","title":"Trauma A Social Theory","description":"\u003ch1\u003eTrauma\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Social Theory\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJeffrey C. Alexander\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePsychology \/ Social Psychology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of  trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations  into social suffering around the globe. \u003cp\u003eAlexander argues that traumas are not merely psychological but  collective experiences, and that trauma work plays a key role in  defining the origins and outcomes of critical social conflicts. He  outlines a model of trauma work that relates interests of carrier  groups, competing narrative identifications of victim and perpetrator,  utopian and dystopian proposals for trauma resolution, the performative  power of constructed events, and the distribution of organizational  resources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlexander explores these processes in richly textured case studies of  cultural-trauma origins and effects, from the universalism of the  Holocaust to the particularism of the Israeli right, from postcolonial  battles over the Partition of India and Pakistan to the invisibility of  the Rape of Nanjing in Maoist China. In a particularly controversial  chapter, Alexander describes the idealizing discourse of globalization  as a trauma-response to the Cold War.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary societies have often been described as more concerned with  the past than the future, more with tragedy than progress. In \u003ci\u003eTrauma: A Social Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, Alexander explains why.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology and a Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e16 July 2012\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolity Press\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePolity\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780745649115\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e180\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17.12\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378865336460,"sku":"9780745649115","price":65.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780745649115.jpg?v=1780182807","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780745649115","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}