Böcker av Ronald Eyerman

Explores the cultural and social construction of trauma through case studies of historical and contemporary crises across the world.

The first book to integrate the cultural and performative turns in social theory into new approaches to the sociology of arts.

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation's apartheid past to be constructed as a cultural trauma. This book argues that the performative nature of the TRC effectively designated the past as profane and put a sacred community based on democratic idealism and universal solidarity.