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

Part 1 National Suffering and World War; Chapter 1 A Fire That Doesn't Burn?, Volker Heins, Andreas Langenohl; Chapter 2 The Cultural Trauma of a Fallen Nation, Akiko Hashimoto; Chapter 3 Revolutionary Trauma and Representation of the War, Rui Gao; Part 2 Ethnic Suffering and Civil War; Chapter 4 The Trauma of Kosovo in Serbian National Narratives, Ivana Spasi?; Chapter 5 Trauma Construction and Moral Restriction, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Shai M. Dromi; Chapter 6 The Drama of the Greek Civil War Trauma, Nicolas Demertzis; Chapter 7 1974 and Greek Cypriot Identity, Victor Roudometof, Miranda Christou; Part 3 The Performance of Suffering and Healing; Chapter 8 Extending Trauma Across Cultural Divides, Carlo Tognato; Chapter 9 Claiming Trauma through Social Performance, Elizabeth Butler Breese; Chapter 10 The Worst Was the Silence, Dominik Bartmanski, Ron Eyerman; Chapter 11 Unassimilable Otherness, Ari Sitas;