{"id":518,"date":"2011-01-27T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-01-27T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:00:00","slug":"215-en--the-empire-of-trauma-an-inquiry-into-the-condition-of-victimhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/2011\/01\/215-en--the-empire-of-trauma-an-inquiry-into-the-condition-of-victimhood\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" alt=\"The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/imagenes\/Libros_mes\/The_Empire_Trauma.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p> By Didier Fassin, Richard Rechtman, Rachel Gomme<\/p>\n<p>Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of  terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to  care for the psychic trauma of victims&#8211;yet it has not always been so.  The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the  nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. <i>The Empire of Trauma<\/i> tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and  politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable  moral category.<\/p>\n<p>Basing their analysis on a wide-ranging  ethnography, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman examine the politics of  reparation, testimony, and proof made possible by the recognition of  trauma. They study the application of psychiatric victimology to victims  of the 1995 terrorist bombings in Paris and the 2001 industrial  disaster in Toulouse; the involvement of humanitarian psychiatry with  both Palestinians and Israelis during the second Intifada; and the  application of the psychotraumatology of exile to asylum seekers  victimized by persecution and torture.<\/p>\n<p>Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of victims, <i>The Empire of Trauma<\/i> provides critical perspective on some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary world.<\/p>\n<p><b>Didier Fassin<\/b>,  one of France&#8217;s leading social anthropologists and a physician in  internal medicine, is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of  Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.<b> Richard Rechtman<\/b>,  a psychiatrist and anthropologist, is medical director of the Institut  Marcel Rivi\u00e8re in France. Both are members of the Interdisciplinary  Research Institute on Social Issues (IRIS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Didier Fassin, Richard Rechtman, Rachel Gomme Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims&#8211;yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[606],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enrecommended-books-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicasdelamemoria.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}