The Cultural Sociology of Political Assassination: From MLK and RFK to Fortuyn and Van Gogh

by Ron Eyerman

Book Overview

Political assassinations are always shocking and traumatic; sometimes however they lead to a cultural trauma, that is, a broad public debate about the foundations of collective identity. The theory of cultural trauma is applied in this book to six political assassinations, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy in the United States, Olof Palme and Anna Lindh in Sweden and Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands. Only in the Swedish case...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230118232
• ISBN13: 9780230118232
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.1"