Narrating Trauma: Individuals, Communities, Storytelling
| Published date | 01 January 2019 |
| Author | Jessica Auchter |
| Date | 01 January 2019 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0305829818808385 |
| Subject Matter | Symposium: Debating Trauma and Emotion in World Politics |
https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818808385
Millennium: Journal of
International Studies
2019, Vol. 47(2) 273 –283
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1. Emma Hutchison, Affective Communities in World Politics: Collective Emotions After
Trauma (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
2. Jenny Edkins, Trauma and the Memory of Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2003).
Narrating Trauma:
Individuals, Communities,
Storytelling
Jessica Auchter
University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, USA
Keywords
trauma, representation, Emma Hutchison, community
Relatar el trauma: Individuos, comunidades, narrativa
Palabras clave
trauma, representación, Emma Hutchison, comunidad
Raconter le traumatisme : Individus, communautés, narration
Mots-clés
traumatisme, représentation, Emma Hutchison, communauté
Emma Hutchison’s Affective Communities in World Politics: Collective Emotions After
Trauma seeks to investigate how emotions underpin political communities.1 The book
contributes to a larger discussion about the role of emotion and trauma in international
politics, and does a particularly good job of being attuned to the interdisciplinary nature
of work on this subject. The role of trauma in understanding international relations is
understudied and often misunderstood, Hutchison argues. Although there is a wide
Corresponding author:
Jessica Auchter, Department of Political Science and Public Service, University of Tennessee Chattanooga,
Dept. 6356, 615 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37403, USA.
Email: jessica-auchter@utc.edu
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Symposium: Debating Trauma and Emotion in World Politics
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