Paměť, trauma, generace

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Title in English Memory, Trauma, Generations
Authors

MARADA Radim

Year of publication 2007
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Sociální studia
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Citation
Field Sociology, demography
Keywords collective memory - collective trauma - cultural representations - generations - generational conflict
Description The article attempts to contribute into the recent debate on cultural trauma by 1) adding a historically fresh example of post-communist memorizing of communism to the cases of Slavery, Holocaust, and Nazism, around which the debate has particularly evolved, and 2) focusing systematically on the generational aspect of the issue. The generational analytical perspective is central. It is in this perspective that communism is compared to Slavery, Holocaust and Nazism as a specific case of the historical transfer and cultural definition of a traumatic experience. It is the triple task of this article, first, to contribute to the general sociological theory of generations, second, to highlight the generational perspective in the sociological debate on cultural trauma, and third, to present communism (next to Slavery, Holocaust, and Nazism) as one of the historical events or rather period which, as a traumatic memory, has produced an intensified generational cleavage in its wake.
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