Transforming trauma : a relational approach to disorganizing systemic violence / Kate Lockwood Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Kate Lockwood, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational sociology.

Psychic trauma.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

Just like people can be traumatized, so too can organizations. 'Transforming Trauma' not only notices how responses to trauma show up in organizational practices and processes, but how to change them. Although organizational trauma responses are wise in the short term, they can become harmful if they endure. To prevent a traumatized organization from becoming a traumatizing organization, Harris offers ways to improve relationships not only among people, but among parts of the organization. By adopting these transformational practices, organizations can play a key role in ending systems of violence, including violence connected to race and gender.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Relational Disorganizing

2 Moving and Staying: Disorganizing Freeze/Flee

3 Vulnerable Un/certainty: Disorganizing Anxious Control

4 Accountability: Disorganizing Blame and Perfectionism

5 Boundaries: Disorganizing Border Defensiveness and Rigidity

6 Dis/comfort: Disorganizing Embodied Forgetting

7 Conclusion: Transforming Trauma

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 28, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-778397-X

0-19-778396-1

0-19-778398-8

OCLC:

1534606997