Transforming Trauma: A Relational Approach to Disorganizing Systemic Violence

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Kate Lockwood Harris (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota)

Transforming Trauma

A Relational Approach to Disorganizing Systemic Violence

Kate Lockwood Harris (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Minnesota)

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Oxford University Press Inc
22 October 2025

Violence in society; Psychology; Health psychology; Clinical psychology; Trauma & shock

Transforming Trauma emerges from contemporary, overlapping social challenges: Global losses of life and connection amidst the COVID-19 pandemic; brutal US police murders of Black and brown people followed by uprisings against systemic racism; and organizing against pervasive gender-based and sexual violence. In the wake of these historical and ongoing events, many people have experienced personal and collective trauma. Although much has been written about how individuals can resolve their personal traumas, and some literature reflects on healing collective trauma, little has been written about how organizations themselves experience trauma and can transform it. This book takes up that work. It does so by relying on relational theories, ways of thinking/being that encompass feminist new materialism, affect theory, intersectionality, and transformative justice. Together, relational theories share this premise: the world consists not of static, separate entities, but of constantly reconfigured connections and interactions. Transformative change, it follows, comes not from

By: Kate Lockwood Harris (Associate Professor Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies University of Minnesota)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780197783955
ISBN 10: 0197783953
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 22 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Kate Lockwood Harris is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is an internationally recognized expert on violence, communication, and organizations. Her first book, Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses (Oxford University Press, 2019), won the European Group for Organizational Studies 2020 Book Award, and she has received numerous other accolades from international and national associations. Her public scholarship is available via her monthly newsletter, CommuniKate.