The Political Sociology of Emotions articulates the political sociology of emotions as a sub-
field of emotions sociology in relation to cognate disciplines and sub-disciplines. Far from …

How do stories of particular events turn into global myths, while others fade away? What
becomes known and seen as a global iconic event? In Stories without Borders, Julia …

Developing the theory of cultural trauma in regard to the shattering potential effects of
political assassinations, Eyerman examines political and social life in three different national …

Human history, even recent history, is marked by numerous mass atrocities and gross
violations of what have come to be identified as basic human rights. Many of them fail to …

Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award for the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section
presented by the American Sociological Association Brings together the study of post …

Social 'constructedness'–and thus malleability of human life forms–is a rather commonplace
proposition in sociology. The gist of the idea is: all that is constructed can be reconstructed …

This book examines how the process of remembering Stalinist repression in Romania has
shifted from individual, family, and group representations of lived and witnessed …

The field of cultural trauma has reached the status of a research paradigm. Ron Eyerman
has played a central role in this development. Since he first embarked on research into …

In this article, we highlight the social processes involved in the construction of cultural
trauma and repair, and how these processes are digitally mediated. In national news …

Nationalism theorists have noted the link between traumatic events and national identity,
and cultural trauma theory presents a framework for understanding how these events …