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Porträtt Ron Eyerman. Foto: yale.edu

Ron Eyerman

Forskare | Professor Emeritus

Porträtt Ron Eyerman. Foto: yale.edu

Covid-19 as cultural trauma

Författare

  • Nicolas Demertzis
  • Ron Eyerman

Summary, in English

This paper has two aims. The first is to introduce the concept of compressed cultural trauma, and the second is to apply the theory of cultural trauma in two case studies of the current covid-19 pandemic, Greece and Sweden. Our central question is whether the pandemic will evolve into a cultural trauma in these two countries. We believe the pandemic presents a challenge to cultural trauma theory, which the idea of compressed trauma is meant to address. We conclude that, while the ongoing covid-19 pandemic has had traumatic consequences in Sweden and Greece, it has not evolved into cultural trauma in either country.

Avdelning/ar

  • Sociologiska institutionen

Publiceringsår

2020-12

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

428-450

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

American Journal of Cultural Sociology

Volym

8

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Palgrave Macmillan

Ämne

  • Sociology

Nyckelord

  • Compressed cultural trauma
  • Covid-19
  • Greece
  • Sweden

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2049-7113