Project description
A study into how post-war trauma impacted the European experience
World War I had profound and enduring effects resulting in deep trauma, including mental health issues and violence-related problems. This impact is evident in numerous documents from that time, including medical and legal texts, novels, and war memoirs. However, the ways in which these experiences shaped interwar ideas, practices, and values remain largely unexplored. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the TRAUMA project will examine how mentally traumatised soldiers, affected by the violence of war, were represented in two opposite contexts, namely Britain and Italy. The project seeks to provide insights into the European experience of war trauma and its consequences, tracing the cultural shifts that informed the socio-cultural building of Europe in the following decades.
Objective
TRAUMA examines the transnational and trans-medial circulation of key discourses regarding mental health and violence that emerged in interwar Europe (1918–39). I argue that, although the conflict between competing ideologies (Fascism; Liberal Democracy; Communism) undermined the construction of European identity, discourses about mental health and violence played a vital role in fostering the formation of ideas, practices, and values that would later become a central part of the fabric of Europe. Focusing on Britain and Italy and combining cultural studies, medical, legal, and transnational history, TRAUMA explores the depiction of mentally traumatized World War I (WWI) servicemen committing violence. Analyzing sources such as medical and legal texts, novels, periodicals, war memoirs, and handbooks for soldiers, TRAUMA tracks the negotiation of transnational discourses about veterans’ mental health and violent behavior across Britain and Italy. Due to their antithetical nature, nationally, politically, and medically, and the opposite roles played by their veterans after WWI, these two contexts offer a unique window into the European experience of war trauma and its effects (e.g. post-traumatic stress disorder; domestic violence) and allow to trace the cultural shifts and historical processes (e.g. the de-mythization of the soldier; the rejection of the war) that informed the later socio-cultural construction of Europe. Conducted within three leading universities – Padua (return phase), Georgetown (outgoing phase), and Hamburg (secondment) – TRAUMA promotes debates on how cultural studies can address Europe’s most pressing concerns, as testified by the EU4HealthProgramme 2021–27, and fosters international collaborative research on mental health, trauma, violence, and European commonality. Through a range of outreach activities involving academic and non-academic audiences and institutions, TRAUMA will have major impacts at cultural, social, and educational level.
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- humanities history and archaeology history modern history
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine psychiatry posttraumatic stress disorder
- social sciences political sciences government systems democracy
- social sciences sociology ideologies
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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35122 Padova
Italy
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