Hurting and healing

A reader checking out the book at the bookfest.

WHAT is trauma? We know it as a negative experience that has physical or psychological impact. However, an academic text called Trauma, Memory and Transformation: Southeast Asian Experiences takes a closer look at the topic, addresses it from multidisciplinary perspectives, broadens its definition, as well as explores how societies recover from it.

Editor Dr Sharon A. Bong says that the volume is a “unique contribution to knowledge in two ways” – it addresses an under-researched area and it redefines society’s understanding of trauma, memory and transformation and “how these concepts intersect”.