{"product_id":"trauma-jeffrey-c-alexander-9780745649115","title":"Trauma: A Social Theory","description":"In 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey C. Alexander\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0745649114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745649115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Polity Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Jeffrey C. Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43925864448255,"sku":"9780745649115","price":72.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f97759fe-db1d-4169-bd52-225c3ed54cd3.jpg?v=1681079824","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/trauma-jeffrey-c-alexander-9780745649115","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}