The question of whether and how the effects of cultural trauma can be transmitted
intergenerationally from parents to offspring, or even to later generations, has evoked …

Little is known about how Asian American families, as well as other racially marginalized
families, communicate about ethnic and racial group histories, particularly regarding …

Yellow Star, Red Star asks why Holocaust memory continues to be so deeply troubled—
ignored, appropriated, and obfuscated—throughout Eastern Europe, even though it was in …

In this book, Roger Luckhurst both introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory
and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of trauma have become a major …

In this innovative study, Lea David critically investigates the relationship between human
rights and memory, suggesting that, instead of understanding human rights in a normative …

Over the last decade, the conviction has grown that culture is intrinsically related to memory.
Jurij Lotman and Boris Uspenskij have defined culture as “the memory of a society that is not …

The failure of societies to respond in a concerted, meaningful way to climate change is a
core concern of the social science climate literature. Existing explanations of social inertia …

The radical transformation that universities are undergoing today is no less far-reaching than
the upheavals that it experienced in the 1960s. However today, when almost 50 per cent of …

We have spoken so far of certain pitfalls associated with thinking about the relationship
between memory and imagination, and suggested that we want to see this relationship in …

Decolonizing trauma theory has been a major project in postcolonial literary scholarship
ever since its first sustained engagements with trauma theory. Since then, trauma theory and …