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- ISBN 9781801360074
- Weight: 1g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores a social biography of a London childhood growing up in a turbulent middle-class London household between World War I and World War II. Based on extensive interviews, the book weaves together how the world in which the child grew up was both created by and mirrors the social and political turmoil of her times, inviting readers to recognize the inseparability of our lives from their contexts. Central to the book’s theme are the contradictory and multifaceted ways in which personal and cultural denial, in the face of layers of violence, enables individuals and entire societies to simultaneously tolerate the intolerable as an act of self-preservation, while also perpetuating unspeakable sufferings. Questions are also explored as to the complex interplay between personal and collective memory, including memories of trauma and their ongoing roles in individual and collective identity construction and maintenance, as well as exploring pathways for individual and collective healing.
Dr. Phoebe Godfrey is a Full Professor-in-Residence in Sociology at UCONN, with a focus on the environment. She is the author of Understanding Just Sustainabilities from Within: A Case Study of a Shared-Use Commercial Kitchen in Connecticut (2012). She is co-editor of a new collection of social theory readings, Social Theories for the Anthropocene: Diversities Across the Divides (2025). She is also the co-editor of Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender (2016) and Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: Intersections of Race, Class and Gender (2016), and of Global [Im]-Possibilities: Exploring the Paradoxes of Just Sustainabilities (2021).
