"1974" as Cultural Trauma
Abstract
Cyprus’ two communities interpreted the 1974 Turkish invasion differently. In contrast to the Turkish Cypriots, the Greek Cypriot community' constructed the invasion as a cultural trauma that left deep scars in memory, society and politics. The traumatic experience was defined by feelings of pain, bitterness and uprooting and by the desire to return to ancestral homes. Even today, these elements are present in Cyprus’ everyday life and are reproduced through government policy, education, and the actions of civil society7 groups. The year 1974 was used as an interpretative scheme for processing the overnight transformation of Cyprus from an agricultural into an urban society. Transferring the trauma to the post-1974 generations strengthens tire sense of trauma and tire need for future amelioration. On the basis of this situation, the prospects of a post-traumatic narrative are briefly contemplated.
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Ρουδομέτωφ Β., & Χρίστου Μ. (2015). "1974" as Cultural Trauma. Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory, 28, 51–80. https://doi.org/10.12681/sas.820
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