Editors:
- Uses a comparative framework to understand colonial repatriation following traumatic forms of decolonization
- Contributes to theories of cultural sociology and collective trauma and memory
- Provides a new concept, accounting for “cultural opportunity structures,” to explore how popular understandings of collective trauma and victimhood develop
Part of the book series: Cultural Sociology (CULTSOC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This volume is first consistent effort to systematically analyze the features and consequences of colonial repatriation in comparative terms, examining the trajectories of returnees in six former colonial countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal). Each contributor examines these cases through a shared cultural sociology frame, unifying the historical and sociological analyses carried out in the collection. More particularly, the book strengthens and improves one of the most important and popular current streams of cultural sociology, that of collective trauma. Using a comparative perspective to study the trajectories of similarly traumatized groups in different countries allows for not only a thick description of the return processes, but also a thick explanation of the mechanisms and factors shaping them. Learning from these various cases of colonial returnees, the authors have been able to develop a new theoretical framework that may help cultural sociologists to explain why seemingly similar claims of collective trauma and victimhood garner respect and recognition in certain contexts, but fail in others.
Editors and Affiliations
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Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Ron Eyerman
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Dept Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Universita degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy
Giuseppe Sciortino
About the editors
Ron Eyerman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA, and affiliated with the Department of Sociology at the University of Lund, Sweden. He is the author of Memory, Trauma, and Identity (2019), Cultural Trauma (2001), and Music and Social Movements (1998), among many other titles. His interests include cultural and social movement theory, critical theory, cultural studies, and the sociology of the arts.
Giuseppe Sciortino is Professor of Sociology at the Università di Trento, Italy. He is the author of Rebus Immigrazione (2017) and the co-author of Great Minds: Encounters with Social Theory (2011, with G. Poggi). His interests include cultural sociology, social solidarity, and international migration studies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization
Book Subtitle: Colonial Returnees in the National Imagination
Editors: Ron Eyerman, Giuseppe Sciortino
Series Title: Cultural Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27025-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27024-7Published: 18 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27027-8Published: 09 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27025-4Published: 05 December 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-3572
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 231
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociological Theory, Sociology of Culture, Historical Sociology, Political Sociology, Migration