Class, Trauma, Identity: Psychosocial Encounters

This book explores how classed traumas in late modernity can be coped with, focusing on the experiences of deindustrialization, crises, and domestic violence from different class positions. It critically engages with memories, narratives, and myths engraved into social and personal histories, highlighting the traumatizing core of the new class divide. The study calls for an exploration of practices, narrations, and spaces whereby alienation and integration co-exist antagonistically, producing hybrid and fragmented, but potentially transformative, subjectivities.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 14 April 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive exploration delves into the intricate dynamics of classed traumas in late modernity, employing a dialectical and multi-perspective approach. At its core, the central question revolves around whether and how class emerges as a potential condition for managing and coping with traumas. The text embarks on a thoughtful journey, traversing between psychoanalysis and sociology, while also engaging with global and local perspectives. It critically examines the ways in which experiences of deindustrialization, crises, and domestic violence are shaped by specific class positions, exploring the variations in coping mechanisms across different social identities such as class, gender, race, age, and ethnicity.

Through a dialogic exploration of memories, narratives, and myths embedded within social and personal histories, the text sheds light on what the upper classes often overlook—the traumatizing essence of the new class divide. Rather than presenting a simplistic idealization or vilification of the dominated, this study advocates for an in-depth examination of practices, narratives, and spaces where alienation and integration coexist in antagonistic ways, giving rise to hybrid and fragmented yet potentially transformative subjectivities.

This book holds significant appeal to scholars engaged in the fields of humanities and social sciences, particularly those specializing in social stratification and inequalities, sociology of emotions, identity theory, trauma and memory, political psychoanalysis, labor history, and ethnography. By delving into the complexities of classed traumas, it offers valuable insights into the broader socio-political landscape and contributes to our understanding of the human experience in the modern world.

Weight: 782g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367725457