Memory, Trauma, and Identity

Ron Eyerman is Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA. He is the author of Music and Social Movements (1998), Cultural Trauma (2001), and Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity (2004), among many other titles. His interests include cultural and social movement theory, critical theory, cultural studies, and the sociology of the arts.

• 1: Introduction: Identity, Memory, and Trauma.- 2: The Past in the Present: Culture and the Transmission of Memory.- 3: Intellectuals and Cultural Trauma.- 4: The Assassination of Harvey Milk.- 5: Social Theory and Cultural Trauma.- 6: The Worst Was the Silence: The Unfinished Drama of the Katyn Massacre.- 7: Cultural Trauma, Collective Memory and the Vietnam War.- 8: Perpetrator Trauma and Collective Guilt.- 9. Conclusion: Ron Eyerman and the Study of Cultural Trauma.