This book engages the globally pressing question of how to live and work with the haunting power of the past in the aftermath of mass violence. It brings together a collection of interdisciplinary contributions to reflect on the haunting of post-conflict memory from the perspective of diverse country case studies including South Africa, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Northern Ireland, North and South Korea, Palestine and Israel, America and Australia. Contributions offer theoretical, empirical and practical insights on the nature of historical trauma and practices of collective healing and repair that include embodied, artistic and culturally relevant forms of wisdom for dealing with the past. While this question has traditionally been explored through the lens of trauma studies in relation to the post-Holocaust experience, this book provides new understandings from a variety of different historical contexts and disciplinary perspectives. Its chapters draw on, challenge and expand the trauma concept to propose more contextually relevant frameworks for transforming haunted memory in the aftermath of historical trauma.

Asks how nations remember, deal with and heal from histories of mass violence Suggests new ways of conceptualizing and addressing collective violence faced by post-conflict societies Re-thinks some of the assumptions which underpin 'trauma' and 'healing' in order to correctly harness its explanatory power

Autorentext

Kim Wale is Senior Researcher in Historical Trauma and Transformation at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is Professor and Research Chair in Historical Trauma and Transformation at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Jeffrey Prager is Research Professor of Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles, US

Inhalt

1. Introduction, Kim Wale, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Jeffrey Prager. 2. Remembering Forwards: Healing The Hauntings Of The Past, John D. Brewer- 3. Ethics Of Memory, Trauma And Reconciliation, Irit Keynan.- 4. What Pandora Did: The Spectre Of Reparation And Hope In An Irreparable World, Jaco Barnard-Naudé.- 5. Do Black Lives Matter? A Psychoanalytic Exploration Of Racism And American Resistance To Reparations, Jeffrey Prager.- 6. Aesthetics Of Memory, Witness To Violence And A Call To Repair, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela.- 7. Haunting And Transitional Justice: On Lives, Landscapes And Unresolved Pasts In Northern Ireland, Cheryl Lawther.- 8. Listening For The Quiet Violence In The Unspoken, Marietjie Oelofsen.- 9. Intergenerational Nostalgic Haunting And Critical Hope: Memories Of Loss And Longing In Bonteheuwel, Kim Wale.- 10. The Ghosts Of Collective Violence: Pathways Of Transmission Between Genocide-Survivor Mothers And Their Young-Adult Children In Rwanda, Grace Kagoyire, Marianne Vysma, Annemiek Richters.- 11. How Shall We Talk Of Bhalagwe? Remembering The Gukurahundi Era In Matabeleland, Zimbabwe, Shari Eppel.- 12. Symptom As History, Culture As Healing: Incarcerated Aboriginal Women's Journeys Through Historic Trauma And Recovery Processes, Judy Atkinson.- 13. Representing Collective Trauma Of Korean War: Creative Education As A Peacebuilding Strategy, Borislava Manojlovic.- 14. Monuments Of Historical Trauma As Sites Of Artistic Expression, Emotional Processing And Political Negotiation, Andrea Bieler.