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<journal-id>0185-1918</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista mexicana de ciencias políticas y sociales]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0185-1918</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0185-19182016000300191</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Trauma cultural, moralidad y solidaridad. La construcción social del Holocausto y otros asesinatos en masa]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Cultural Trauma, Morality and Solidarity. The Social Construction of the Holocaust and Other Mass Murders]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Alexander]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jeffrey C.]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Yale University  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2016</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>61</volume>
<numero>228</numero>
<fpage>191</fpage>
<lpage>210</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0185-19182016000300191&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0185-19182016000300191&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0185-19182016000300191&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN: Un trauma cultural se produce cuando los miembros de una colectividad sienten que han sido sometidos a un acontecimiento horrendo que deja marcas indelebles sobre su conciencia colectiva, marcando sus memorias para siempre y cambiando su identidad futura de manera fundamental e irrevocable. Si bien este concepto científico sugiere relaciones empírico/causales entre sucesos, estructuras, percepciones y acciones previamente no relacionadas entre sí, también ilumina, de nueva cuenta, un dominio significativo de responsabilidad moral y acción política. Mediante la elaboración de traumas culturales, los grupos sociales, las sociedades nacionales, y a veces incluso civilizaciones enteras, no solo identifican cognitivamente la existencia y las fuentes del sufrimiento humano, sino que también pueden asumir cierta responsabilidad moral por ello. En la medida en que los grupos identifican las causas del trauma y asumen esa responsabilidad moral, los miembros de las colectividades definen sus relaciones solidarias para que les permitan, e incluso obliguen, a compartir el sufrimiento de los demás. ¿Es el sufrimiento de los otros también el nuestro? Al pensar que así podría ser, las sociedades amplían el círculo del "nosotros" y crean la posibilidad de que la reparación de las sociedades evite que el trauma vuelva a suceder. Empíricamente, este artículo considera la elaboración del trauma en el caso del Holocausto -el asesinato en masa de los judíos por los nazis así como su lugar fundacional en la elaboración del trauma y su resignificación-, y refiere a las experiencias de los afroamericanos, los indígenas, las víctimas coloniales del imperialismo Occidental y japonés, la Masacre Nanking y las víctimas de los regímenes comunistas de la Unión Soviética y de la china maoísta.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT: A cultural trauma is produced when the members of a community feel they have gone through a dreadful event that has left indelible scars on their collective consciousness, branding forever their memories and changing their future identity in an essential and irrevocable way. Although this scientific concept suggests there are empiric/causal links among occurrences, structures, perceptions, and actions that were not previously connected, it also illuminates anew a significant domain of moral responsibility and political action. By elaborating cultural traumas, social groups, national societies and sometimes even entire civilizations may not only cognitively identify the existence and sources of human suffering, but also take certain moral responsibility for it. As groups identify the roots of trauma and assume a moral responsibility, the members of communities establish supportive relationships that may allow them -and even force them- to partake of the suffering of the others. Is the others' suffering also our suffering? Insofar as it is deemed plausible, societies broaden the circle of the "us" and will endeavor to prevent the trauma from happening again by means of their healing process. This article considers empirically the working-through of a trauma in the case of the Holocaust -the massive extermination of Jews by the Nazis and its foundational status in the elaboration and re/signifying of the trauma-, and discusses the experiences of the Afro-Americans, the indigenous peoples, the colonial victims of Western and Japanese imperialism, the Nanking Massacre, and the victims of communist regimes of the Soviet Union and the Maoist China.]]></p></abstract>
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