جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « ترومای جمعی » در نشریات گروه « علوم اجتماعی »

While earthquake is described objectively in scientific texts, it gets its meaning from a social context, and is understood in continuity of historical experience among people. Sarpol-e-Zahab earthquake interrupts everyday life of its habitats, and at the same time carries on a historical path. In-depth interviews with narrators of the disaster indicate that social history of the place (existence of different religions, war, enslavement, chemical bombing, civil wars, genocide, poverty, porterage (Koolbari), executions and political struggles) plays an important role in understanding a natural disaster. Experiencing an earthquake is integrated in individual and collective identities, and connects to other elements of collective memories. Epistemic system organizes the experience of this earthquake and determines the agency toward it. The results show that the common concern of the narrators includes fear of betrayal, marginalization and being forgotten. They perceive the disaster to be humanistic and their attachment to the place is reduced. Therefore it seems vital to prepare necessary requirements for creating collective identities and collective narratives and to help them to be heard and recognized by each other and to establish meaningful relationship between themselves.

Oral History is one of the most democratic qualitative research method in the humanities and social sciences in which narrators retell realities; oral history is a deep dialog between two persons in that their memories are recorded in the format of narrations. Memories and remembering of the memories (why and how) are the most important aspect of implementing of oral history. In this article, we investigate the method of oral history to demonstrate how to apply oral history in the reflection of collective trauma. Collective trauma is a collective psychological damage that makes people feel loss in the case of natural and unnatural events such as earthquake and war, which brings them painful and grieving memories that survive for many years. These people are the most important subjects of oral history. Hence, referring to the works of Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich, the winner of the Noble prize in literature in 2015, that are translated and published in Persian, we demonstrate concretely how to apply this method in the reflection of various kinds of collective trauma.