none 10.30820/2752-2121-2026-1-41 Psychosozial-Verlag GmbH and Co. KG Psychosozial-Verlag GmbH and Co. KG 12270 194587376 525224 2026050816243483 10.30820 2026-05-08T14:28:58Z 2026-05-08T14:16:13Z 1 Trauma Kultur Gesellschaft TKG 2752-2121 2752-213X 10.30820/2752-2121 https://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/2752-2121 https://elibrary.utb.de/journal/TKG https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/zeitschrift/2752-2121 04 2026 04 2026 4 8554 10.30820/2752-2121-2026-1 1 10.30820/2752-2121-2026-1 https://www.psychosozial-verlag.de/8554 https://elibrary.utb.de/toc/TKG/2026/1 https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.30820/2752-2121-2026-1 Eine Fallstudie zu sozialem Trauma Roger Frie Dieser Beitrag untersucht die langfristigen Folgen des kanadischen Indian-Residential-School-Systems aus der Perspektive des sozialen Traumas. Auf Grundlage von Archivmaterial, Zeug*innenberichten und Untersuchungen zu namenlosen Gräbern wird nachgezeichnet, wie Zwangsassimilation, systematische Gewalt und die Auslöschung indigener Identität nachhaltige psychische, familiäre und kollektive Verletzungen hervorgebracht haben. Diese Praktiken werden als miteinander verflochtene Instrumente staatlicher Kontrolle analysiert, die Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen, Sprache und kulturelle Kontinuität zerstörten. Der Beitrag argumentiert, dass das daraus resultierende Trauma kumulativ, transgenerational und in gegenwärtige Ungleichheitsstrukturen eingebettet ist. In Auseinandersetzung mit der Truth and Reconciliation Commission von 2015 und der National Inquiry von 2019 wird gezeigt, dass der Begriff des sozialen Traumas die kollektive und strukturelle Dimension dieser Gewalt präziser erfasst als klinische oder individualisierende Traumakonzeptionen. 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