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Trauma, Grief, and Remembrance in the Aftermath of Terrorism : The Phenomenology of Violent Child Loss.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2026 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dimcheva, Yordanka.
- Series:
- Death and Culture Series
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- What does it mean to grieve a child lost to an act of terrorism?This book offers a powerful and deeply human exploration of traumatic bereavement, grounded in parents' first-hand accounts of losing a child to political violence.Drawing on research in France, the book explores how such loss disrupts meaning, time and self.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Series Editors' Preface
- About the series
- About this book
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The two deadliest terrorist attacks in the contemporary history of France
- The academic study of traumatic bereavement in the context of terrorism
- Intersections between trauma, grief, and remembrance
- The value of a phenomenological perspective
- Sensoriality and reflexivity
- Ethical considerations
- Structure of the book
- Presentation of research participants
- Part I When Loss and Trauma Collide
- 1 The Long Shadow of Traumatic Bereavement
- Memories of violent loss
- The loss of a world
- The solitude of traumatic bereavement
- The resurfacing of trauma
- Summary
- 2 The 'Second' Attack
- The continuum of traumas
- The inflexibility of institutional response
- The violence of the forensic institute
- The loss of the assumptive world
- Part II The Meaning of Your Absence
- 3 Looking for Meaning Among the Ruins of Loss
- The search for 'why?' in trauma and loss
- Finding purpose as a response to loss
- Healing and sense-making as relational experiences
- Looking for justice
- 4 Transforming Loss into an Affective Presence
- Inscribing the wounds of loss into words
- In-between presence and absence
- Embracing their memory
- Living alongside grief
- Attempts at Closure
- Temporality
- Spatiality
- Corporeality
- Relationality
- The phenomenology of violent loss to terrorism
- Implications for policy and practice
- Epilogue: responding to an accusation
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-5053-6
- 9781529250534
- OCLC:
- 1586551721
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