Class, Trauma, Identity

Psychosocial Encounters

Giorgos Bithymitris (National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), Greece)

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English

Routledge
14 April 2023

Social & political philosophy; Social classes; Social theory; Psychotherapy; Trauma & shock

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

This book is a dialectic and multi-perspective examination of classed traumas in late modernity. The primary anchoring question is whether and how class becomes a condition of possibility for coping with traumas. What does it mean to experience deindustrialization, crises, or domestic violence from a specific class position? Do the coping mechanisms differ along the lines of class, gender, race, age, or ethnicity?

The text negotiates such questions, travelling back and forth from psychoanalysis to sociology and from the global to the local, while critically engaging with memories, narratives, and myths engraved into social and personal histories. Through a dialogic quest for what is silenced, and what is salient within oral, written, and visual testimonies, it foregrounds what the upper classes prefer to neglect: the traumatizing core of the new class divide. Rather than idealizing or vilifying the dominated, this study calls for an exploration of practices, narrations, and spaces whereby alienation and integration co-exist antagonistically, producing hybrid and fragmented, but also potentially transformative, subjectivities.

This book will be of interest to scholars of humanities and social sciences, primarily for those studying social stratification and inequalities, sociology of emotions, identity theory, trauma and memory, political psychoanalysis, labour history, and ethnography.

By: Giorgos Bithymitris (National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) Greece)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 780g
ISBN: 9780367725457
ISBN 10: 0367725452
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 14 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The dialectics of identification I 2. The dialectics of identification II 3. On class and trauma 4. Classed traumas in contexts 5. A topography of traumas 6. From sameness to alterity 7. The many 8. The one 9. Conclusions References Index

Giorgos Bithymitris is a Researcher at the Institute of Social Research, National Centre for Social Research (EKKE) in Greece, with expertise in the fields of social stratification and trade union research. His current research interest focuses on the social and cultural components of classed subjectivities and their political implications. His most recent publications include The (im)possibility of class identity: Reflections on a case of failed right-wing hegemony (2021), and Mind the Gaps: The Class Dynamics of the Greek Parliamentary Elite (2022).