engleski

Trauma, Leaders and Ideology

This presentation examine the role of various carriers of influence—political, military and religious leaders—as potential sources of cultural trauma. Leaders are often described as the main characters in the narratives of cultural trauma, and can assume simultaneously, the status of villains as well as heroes. The panel explores such opposite imaginations, their dynamics and political effects, by using various examples, from the post-Yugoslav countries, Hungary, Russia to the United States. The speakers also address the cultic veneration of leaders (modern dictators) and the way such cults were developed and promoted with the aim of diminishing the impact of perceived historical traumas (collapse of empire, war, genocide, etc.)

carriers of influence ; cultural trauma ; cultic veneration ; former Yugoslavia ; Russia ; United States

nije evidentirano