The Cultural Trauma of Decolonization Colonial Returnees in the National Imagination

Ron Eyerman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA, and affiliated with the Department of Sociology at the University of Lund, Sweden. He is the author of  Memory, Trauma, and Identity (2019), Cultural Trauma (2001), and  Music and Social Movements (1998), among many other titles. His interests include cultural and social movement theory, critical theory, cultural studies, and the sociology of the arts.

Giuseppe Sciortino is Professor of Sociology at the Università di Trento, Italy. He is the author of  Rebus Immigrazione  (2017) and the co-author of  Great Minds: Encounters with Social Theory  (2011, with G. Poggi). His interests include cultural sociology, social solidarity, and international migration studies.