Ronald Eyerman: 3 books
Myth, Meaning and Performance
Toward a New Cultural Sociology of the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
The cultural and performative turns in social theory have enlivened sociology. For the first time these new developments are fully integrated into new approaches to the sociology of the arts in this important new book. Building on the established research into art worlds, what is interesting for the...
Narrating Trauma
On the Impact of Collective Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Through case studies that examine historical and contemporary crises across the world, the contributing writers to this volume explore the cultural and social construction of trauma. How do some events get coded as traumatic and others which seem equally painful and dramatic not? Why do culpable groups...
Staging Solidarity
Truth and Reconciliation in a New South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
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, and by doing so created a new collective narrative of diversity and inclusion. The TRC relied primarily on testimonies from victims...