Kirby Farrell argues that “in contemporary culture … trauma is both a clinical syndrome and a trope…” (1998, p.2). What are the tensions between the clinical designation of categories such as PTSD in psychiatric discourses and the wider uses of the concept of trauma in contemporary public life?
- Demonstrate knowledge of concepts, theories, and debates in trauma and memory studies as covered in the subject;
- Show capacity to connect concepts, theories and arguments to case studies and/or examples through a logically structured, sustained line of independent argumentation;
1.1 Kaplan (2005) ‘Why Trauma Now’.pdf
1.2 Pandell (2022) ‘How trauma became the word of the decade
— and the Covid-19 pandemic’ (Vox).pdf
Block 1: Histories of Trauma, Theories of Memory
Block 1: Histories of
Trauma, Theories of Memory
2.1 Herman (2015[1992]) Trauma and Recovery Ch1 ‘A Forgotten
History’.pdf
2.2 Brown (1995) ‘Not Outside the Range – One Feminist
Perspective on Psychic Trauma’.pdf
3.1 Diedrich (2018) ‘PTSD – A New Trauma Paradigm’.pdf
3.2 Fassin & Rechtman (2009) ‘The Moral Economy of
Trauma’.pdf
3.3 Pederson (2014) ‘Speak, Trauma – Toward a Revised
Understanding of Literary Trauma Theory’ Narrative 22(3).pdf
4.1 Blackman (2021) The Body – the Key Concepts (Intro +
Ch1).pdf
4.2 Lyon et al (2020) IJW 10(5) Left Write Hook.pdf
5.1 Assmann (2006) ‘Memory, Individual and Collective’.pdf
5.2 Subotic (2019) ‘The Politics of Holocaust Remembrance
after Communism’.pdf
Block 2: Memory Activism/s, Sites and Forms of
Representation
Block 2: Memory
Activism/s, Sites and Forms of Representation
6.1 Gutman (2017) Memory Activism – Reimagining the Past for
the Future in Israel-Palestine (Intro).pdf
6.2 Landsberg (2023) ‘Memory vs. History – The Politics of
Temporality’.pdf
6.3 Kennedy (2023) ‘Anniversaries and National Holidays’.pdf
6.4 Göpffarth (2023) ‘Memory and Illiberalism’.pdf
7.1 Hirsch (2008) PT 29(3) ‘The Generation of
Postmemory’.pdf
7.2 Gordon (2008) ‘Introduction’ and Ch1 in Ghostly
Matters.pdf
7.3 Dragojlovic (2018) Subj 11(2) ‘Politics of negative
affect’.pdf
8.1 Bonder (2009) Places 21(1) ‘On Memory, Trauma, Public
Space, Monuments, and Memorials’.pdf
8.2 Sodaro (2018) ‘Memorial Museums’ in Exhibiting
Atrocity.pdf
8.3 Huyssen (1993) YJC 6(2) ‘Monument and Memory in a
Postmodern Age’.pdf
9.1 Gook (2017) ‘Australian Postcolonial Trauma and SIlences
in Samson and Delilah’.pdf
9.2 Kelada & Clarke (2019) ‘Beyond the Wonderland of
Whiteness’.pdf
10.1 Newham (2022) ‘HIV in Indonesia On shared trauma,
global solidarity and grief’ – Archer Magazine.pdf
10.2 Youde (2017) AJPH 63(3) ‘Covering the Cough’.pdf
10.3 Adams & Kopelman (2022) MC&S 44(2) ‘Remembering
COVID-19 – Memory, crisis, and social media’.pdf
11.1 Enke (2018) TSQ 5(1) ‘Collective Memory and the
Transfeminist 1970s’.pdf
11.2 Cifor (2015) TSQ 2(4) ‘Presence, Absence, and
Victoria’s Hair’.pdf
11.3 Ryan LGB and or T History – Digital Transgender
Archive.pdf
12.1 Rieff (2011) Preface and Ch1 from Against
Remembrance.pdf
12.2 Korenhof & Koops (2014) ‘Identity Construction and
the Right to be Forgotten – the case of Gender Identity’.pdf