| The Cultural Sociology of Political Assassination: From MLK and RFK to Fortuyn and Van Gogh 2011 Edition Contributor(s): Eyerman, R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0230118224 ISBN-13: 9780230118225 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Violence In Society - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| LCCN: 2011011765 |
| Series: Cultural Sociology |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (0.95 lbs) 191 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Political assassinations are always shocking and traumatic; sometimes however they lead to a cultural trauma, that is, a broad public debate about the foundations of collective identity. The theory of cultural trauma is applied in this book to six political assassinations, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy in the United States, Olof Palme and Anna Lindh in Sweden and Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands. Only in the Swedish case did a cultural trauma not emerge, this book explains why it did not and why it did in the case of the United States and the Netherlands. |
