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The Cultural Sociology of Political Assassination

Part of the Cultural Sociology Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230337879

ISBN: 978-0-230-11823-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Jan 1, 2011

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Chapter 1The Primal Scene

Eyerman, Ron

Pages: 1 –7

[On November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, thirty-fifth president of the United States, was shot while riding in an open motor vehicle on the streets of Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was sitting in a specially designed six-seat limousine, waving at cheering crowds when three shots rang out.1 The...
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Chapter 2Political Assassination, Trauma, and Narration

Eyerman, Ron

Pages: 9 –32

[My concern in this book is with political assassination as a form of traumatic event, and how, with the aid of mass-mediated representation, the murder of an important public person can set in motion a process of cultural trauma. My primary case studies are Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F....
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Chapter 3Remembering the 1960s: The Assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy

Eyerman, Ron

Pages: 33 –73

[During the 2008 American presidential primaries, the New York Times reported that “a daughter persuaded her mother to still vote for Senator Obama, even though the mother feared that winning would put him in danger.” During that campaign, and after, many expressed fear that Barack Obama, as the...
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Chapter 4The End of Innocence: The Murders of Olof Palme and Anna Lindh

Eyerman, Ron

Pages: 75 –109

[As discussed in the opening chapter, Sweden was one of the last countries in the world where one expected the murder of a national leader. Though extreme political violence had occurred in the recent past, these incidences affected the representatives of foreign governments. The last...
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Chapter 5The End of Tolerance: The Murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh

Eyerman, Ron

Pages: 111 –144

[In a television interview recorded in 1997, Theo van Gogh spoke with Pim Fortuyn on the latter’s views on the European Union (EU). It was a serious and factual conversation, with Fortuyn presenting in very clear terms his position against the idea of a united Europe with its own parliament and...
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Chapter 6Conclusion

Eyerman, Ron

Pages: 145 –170

[This book has been concerned with political assassination as traumatic occurrence and how, with the aid of mass-mediated representation, such an occurrence becomes an event that can set in motion a process of cultural trauma. Now, after the detailed presentation of six cases in three countries,...

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