Shadows of Trauma: Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity (Assmann Aleida)(Paperback)

Shadows of Trauma: Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity (Assmann Aleida)(Paperback)

We have left the twentieth century, but this century of violence and extremes has not left us: Its shadow has become longer and blacker. Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, the memory of the Holocaust is less and less anchored in the lived experience of survivors and witnesses

Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives (Assmann Aleida)(Paperback)

Identity - Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition (Fukuyama Francis)(Paperback / softback)

The divisive impacts of identity politics laid bare by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order and The End of

Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies (Assmann Jan)(Paperback)

In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a cultural dimension too. He develops a persuasive

Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory (Huyssen Andreas)(Paperback)

This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New

Is Time Out of Joint?: On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime (Assmann Aleida)(Pevná vazba)

Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future--and their relationship to the present--been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in

Picture Cycle (Tupitsyn Masha)(Paperback)

A multigenre investigation of the personal and cultural annals of memory, identity, and spectatorship, both on and off the screen.In exchange for studying what each fraudulent cell looks like under a merciless commercial and commodified lens, viewers enable late-capitalism to run more smoothly by

Museums and Sites of Persuasion: Politics, Memory and Human Rights (Apsel Joyce)(Paperback)

Museums and Sites of Persuasion examines the concept of museums and memory sites as locations that attempt to promote human rights, democracy and peace. Demonstrating that such sites have the potential to act as powerful spaces of persuasion or contestation, the book also shows that there are

The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice (Haines Staci)(Paperback)

An essential tool for healers, therapists, activists, and survivors of trauma who are interested in a justice-centered approach to somatic transformation The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma

Once and Future Liberal - After Identity Politics (Lilla Mark)(Paperback / softback)

An impassioned and biting critique of the failure of American

None of Us Is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition (Frankland Emma)(Paperback)

Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Haider Asad)(Paperback)

A powerful challenge to the way we understand the politics of race and the history of anti-racist struggleWhether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history's most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common

Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony (Jarvis Jill)(Paperback)

The magnitude of the legal violence exercised by the French to colonize and occupy Algeria (1830-1962) is such that only aesthetic works have been able to register its enduring effects. In Decolonizing Memory Jill Jarvis examines the power of literature to provide what demographic data, historical

Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past and Future of Political Access (Montalbano Lori L.)(Pevná vazba)

Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past and Future of Political Access explores the ways in which cultural expression is represented in American politics as it intersects with issues of gender, race, and the construction of social identity. Specifically, this body of work

Identity and the Difficulty of Emancipation (Kaul Volker)(Pevná vazba)

This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation. It addresses the burning questions of our times, viz. nationalism, populism, Islamic fundamentalism, multiculturalism, postsecularism and

Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal (Pabst Adrian)(Paperback)

Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more hopeful: a post-liberal moment. Adrian Pabst argues

Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics (Sobolewska Maria)(Paperback)

An authoritative and accessible account of how long-term social and demographic changes - and the conflicts they create - continue to transform British politics. A book for anyone who wants to better understand the remarkable political times in which we

Community Archives, Community Spaces - Heritage, Memory and Identity(Paperback / softback)

This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, expanding the definition of community archives to include sites such as historical societies, social movement organisations and community centres, and explore new definitions of what community archives might encompass, particularly

Trauma and Memory: The Science and the Silenced (Sinason Valerie)(Paperback)

Trauma and Memory will assist mental health experts and professionals, as well as the interested public, in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory, and how this differs from other areas of memory. This book provides accounts of the damage caused to psychology and survivors

The Rise of the Civilizational State (Coker Christopher)(Paperback)

In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics - from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 American election to the pushback against Western universalism in much of the non-Western world. Much less noticed is the rise of a new political entity, the civilizational

The Search for God in Ancient Egypt: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War (Assmann Jan)(Paperback)

First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologists was first published in German in 1984. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt offers a distillation of Jan Assmann's views on ancient Egyptian religion,

Shadows Of The Workhouse - The Drama Of Life In Postwar London (Worth Jennifer SRN SCM)(Paperback / softback)

A fascinating slice of East End life, from the No.1 bestsellilng author of CALL THE MIDWIFE, soon to be a major BBC TV

Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media (Leese Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual

The Archaeology of Food: Identity, Politics, and Ideology in the Prehistoric and Historic Past (Twiss Katheryn C.)(Paperback)

The Archaeology of Food explains how archaeologists reconstruct what people ate, and how such reconstructions reveal ancient political struggles, religious practices, ethnic identities, gender norms, and more. Balancing deep research with accessible writing, Katheryn Twiss familiarizes readers with