Traumatic Pasts in Asia: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma from the 1930s to the Present

Mark S. Micale (Curatore)

Hans Pols (Curatore)

Berghahn Books, 2021

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.

• Curatore: Mark S. Micale, Hans Pols
• Editore: Berghahn Books
• Anno: 2021
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 406 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• EAN: 9781800731837

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