The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting
Essays on Trauma, History, and Memory
Foreword by Claude Barbre Contributions by Ricardo Ainslie, Claude Barbre, Scott Boehm, Marilyn Charles, Naama de la Fontaine, Justina K. Dillon, Minh Truong-George, Hannah Hahn, Tom Hennes, Luis Martin-Cabrera, Michael O'Loughlin, Nirit Gradwohl Pisano, Billie A. Pivnick, Mari Ruti, Reinhold Stipsits, Kate Szymanski, Graham Toomey, Norma Tracey, Ross Truscott, Clara Valverde, Angie Voela, Nigel Williams Edited by Michael O'Loughlin
Publication date:
18 December 2014Length of book:
406 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781442231870
The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Essays on Trauma, History, and Memory brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines that draw on multiple perspectives to address issues that arise at the intersection of trauma, history, and memory. Contributors include critical theorists, critical historians, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and a working artist. The authors use intergenerational trauma theory while also pushing and pulling at the edges of conventional understandings of how trauma is defined. This book respects the importance of the recuperation of memory and the creation of interstitial spaces where trauma might be voiced. The writers are consistent in showing a deep respect for the sociohistorical context of subjective formation and the political importance of recuperating dangerous memory—the kind of memory that some authorities go to great lengths to erase. The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting is of interest to critical historians, critical social theorists, psychotherapists, psychosocial theorists, and to those exploring the possibilities of life as the practice of freedom.
This is a collection of essays that make important historical events come alive in a direct and vivid manner through the lens of trauma. A vast reach of geographical spaces and historical moments are captured, not only from a therapeutic perspective, but also through other ways of engaging trauma, namely art therapy, critical history, and many other discursive positions. This unusual approach makes this volume so special.