Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Eyerman, Ron; Giesen, Bernard; Smelser, Neil J.; Sztompka, Piotr

doi:10.1525/9780520936768

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“…The ‘before’ described by Leopolda represents her cultural world prior to the massacre. This lost paradise generally distinguishes memories of a trauma (Alexander et al, 2004; Antze and Lambek, 1996; Beneduce, 2010; Caruth, 1995) and, in particular, identifies those of Sant’Anna (Cappelletto, 2003, 2010). The ‘after’, instead, is the time of waiting for justice, truth and institutional assistant:There were four hundred of us when it happened.…”

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The massacre-centred memory of Sant’Anna di Stazzema, Italy

Pasquale

2018

Memory Studies

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This article is based on an anthropological study on memory carried out between 2002 and 2010 in Sant’Anna di Stazzema, a village located in the mountains of Tuscany, where the Nazis exterminated almost all of the civilian inhabitants on 12 August 1944. Nearly 400 people died, mainly women, children and the elderly. Despite what occurred, neither historical nor legal acknowledgements were forthcoming until as late as 2007. Through the study of ethnographical documents, the author analyses the cultural value of memory of the massacre narrated by survivors and the relatives of victims from 1944 to the present day. To examine how this memory has been passed down through time both inside and outside the martyred village, the author reflects on the complex intertwining of the individual and collective remembrances during the long and drawn-out elaboration of the trauma.

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The massacre-centred memory of Sant’Anna di Stazzema, Italy

Pasquale

2018

Memory Studies

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“…", odnosno na koji način "djelovanjem kroz znakove i na tijela materijaliziraju površinu i granice" u odnosu spram "drugih" (Ahmed 2004: 191). U tom kontekstu i reprezentacija, odnosno narativizacija 1 traumatskog događaja kao kulturne traume (Alexander 2004a) izvodi i proizvodi emocije koje strukturiraju tu afektivnu dimenziju procesa identifikacije.…”

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Bleiburg kao kulturna trauma

Beroš

2020

Etnol. trib. (Online)

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Od osamostaljenja Hrvatske hrvatsko je društvo antagonizirano oko pitanja jugoslavenske prošlosti. Točka prijepora oko koje je društvo podijeljeno u dva gotovo nepomirljiva tabora odnosi se na interpretaciju događaja nakon Drugog svjetskog rata i masovne likvidacije pripadnika poražene vojske Nezavisne Države Hrvatske koja je započela njihovom predajom kod Bleiburga u Austriji, poznatih kao bleiburška tragedija. Te su likvidacije u Jugoslaviji pod vlašću Komunističke partije bile svojevrstan tabu, ali ih je hrvatska antijugoslavenska emigracija, povezujući ih s gubitkom “domovine” iz pozicije egzila, konstruirala kao kulturnu traumu. Ovaj rad usredotočen je na analizu narativizacije bleiburške tragedije kojom se proizvode emocije, konstruira ideološka fantazma te stvaraju značenja tih poslijeratnih događaja kao točke zajedničkog sjećanja hrvatske političke emigracije. Analiza se temelji na člancima koji se bave tom tematikom u časopisu Hrvatska revija u vrijeme kada ona izlazi u Argentini. Također se propituje način na koji tako strukturirana kulturna trauma, ušavši u hrvatski javni prostor revizijom zajedničkih sjećanja, antagonizira društveno polje.

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“…Research on cultural traumas places emphasis on the societal reaction and the cultural responses to such events as a ‘tear in the social fabric’ (Eyerman, 2011: 12). In other words, these events are simply understood not only as being traumatic for the victims of the crime but also as being traumatic for society as a whole (Alexander et al, 2004). This means that certain events may be understood as culturally traumatic and others may not, but the types of events may be largely different.…”

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Pizza, beer and kittens: Negotiating cultural trauma discourses on Twitter in the wake of the 2017 Stockholm attack

Eriksson

2018

New Media & Society

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The overarching aim of this study is to analyse how social media communication can impact the formation of cultural trauma discourses in the aftermath of disruptive societal events. The article focuses on how the hashtag #openstockholm was used on Twitter for support, sharing and cooperation after the Stockholm lorry attack in 2017. Much of the content posted with this hashtag had a light-hearted tone, flouting the conventional trauma discourses of grief and sorrow in a way that was surprising, and perhaps even provocative, to some. A thematic analysis of tweets shows the different uses of the hashtag over time, as well as distinguishes two conflicting discourses that either downplayed or amplified the cultural trauma narrative. The study shows that the responses to traumatic events may depend on a culturally specific logic of collective action frames which implies the need for contextual understandings of how cultural trauma discourses are negotiated.

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Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

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The massacre-centred memory of Sant’Anna di Stazzema, Italy

The massacre-centred memory of Sant’Anna di Stazzema, Italy

Bleiburg kao kulturna trauma

Pizza, beer and kittens: Negotiating cultural trauma discourses on Twitter in the wake of the 2017 Stockholm attack

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