Trauma Kultur Gesellschaft

This contribution is based on a qualitative study with German children and adolescents who went abroad to the ›Islamic State‹ (IS) together with their mothers, were ideologically socialized by the IS, and finally returned to Germany (Käsehage,...

The article deals with the hurtful, potentially traumatising effects of repressive religious socialisation and education. It is assumed that such traumas do not occur suddenly, but sequentially and cumulatively. After brief theoretical references,...

The seduction theory defines film in a broader sense as a medium of seduction and starts from two premises: Firstly, film itself is seduction; to see a film is to be seduced by it. And secondly, film always remains a phantom-like medium, a temporary...

On their research trip on the occasion of a planned fictional feature film about the transgenerational upheavals in her Iranian family, the author and her co-writer find themselves caught up in the rebellion of Iranian women against religious...

Hardly any other medium seems better suited to visualizing, storing, communicating, and transforming historical or recent traumatic injuries on an individual or collective level than film. In concise performances, it succeeds in making visible and...