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Record Nr.

UNINA9910370055603321

Titolo

The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization : Colonial Returnees in the National Imagination / / edited by Ron Eyerman, Giuseppe Sciortino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-27025-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages)

Collana

Cultural Sociology, , 2946-3580

Disciplina

325.3

306.2

Soggetti

Sociology

Culture

Political sociology

Emigration and immigration

Sociological Theory

Sociology of Culture

Political Sociology

Human Migration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Italian Decolonization: Multidirectional Migrations, Multidirectional Memories -- 3. Japanese Narratives of Decolonization and Repatriation from Manchuria -- 4. Trauma and the Last Dutch War in Indonesia, 1945-1949 -- 5. Beyond the "Trauma": Legitimization and Revenge of the "Anciens du Congo" -- 6. Pied-Noir Trauma and Identity in Postcolonial France, 1962-2010 -- 7. Trauma and the Portuguese Repatriation: A Confined Collective Identity -- 8. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is first consistent effort to systematically analyze the features and consequences of colonial repatriation in comparative terms, examining the trajectories of returnees in six former colonial countries (Belgium, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and Portugal). Each contributor examines these cases through a shared cultural sociology frame, unifying the historical and sociological analyses



carried out in the collection. More particularly, the book strengthens and improves one of the most important and popular current streams of cultural sociology, that of collective trauma. Using a comparative perspective to study the trajectories of similarly traumatized groups in different countries allows for not only a thick description of the return processes, but also a thick explanation of the mechanisms and factors shaping them. Learning from these various cases of colonial returnees, the authors have been able to develop a new theoretical framework that may help cultural sociologists to explain why seemingly similar claims of collective trauma and victimhood garner respect and recognition in certain contexts, but fail in others.