Traumatic pasts in Asia : history, psychiatry, and trauma from the 1930s to the present /
In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn,
[2021]
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| Summary: | In the early twenty-first century, trauma is seemingly everywhere, whether as experience, diagnosis, concept or buzzword. Yet even as many scholars consider trauma to be constitutive of psychological modernity or the post-Enlightenment human condition, historical research on the topic has overwhelmingly focused on cases, such as World War I or the Holocaust, in which Western experiences and actors are foregrounded. There remains an urgent need to incorporate the methods and insights of recent historical trauma research into a truly global perspective. The chapters in Traumatic Pasts in Asia make just such an intervention, extending Euro-American paradigms of traumatic experience to new sites of world-historical suffering and, in the process, exploring how these new domains of research inform and enrich earlier scholarship. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781800731837 1800731833 |