Transgenerational Colonialism: Wounding, Overcoming, and the Reconstruction of Collective and Personal Identity

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In Transgenerational Colonialism, Karel James Bouse offers an alternative and holistic model for the analysis of colonialism and its effects on humanity. Using the current anti-colonialist struggle in Northern Ireland as a representative case study, Bouse illustrates her theoretical model by tracing the onset of trauma to the eventual overcoming period, evidenced by a cultural renaissance, a reconstruction of collective positive identity, and political self-determination. This book is recommended for students and scholars of psychology, history, political science, and cultural studies, as well as those interested in the cyclical nature of colonial experience.

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Transgenerational Colonialism could not be more timely. Its author, Katherine James Bouse, calls for a radically new epistemology, a way of looking at the world that heals the wounds inflicted by colonialism and imperialism that resulted in collective trauma. She calls for a perspective that is cyclical, not linearone that sees humans as a part of nature, not dominant over their environment, one that heals wounds rather than inciting additional conflict. Drawing upon history, psychology, mythology, and arts-based inquiry, Bouse has issued a clarion call for a world and worldview in which everyone will benefita truly win-win solution to the current crises from which all humanity suffers.

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Karel James Bouse is an independent scholar.