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Page 21 Trauma Theory: Contexts, Politics, Ethics 21 History The foregrounding of questions of testimony and witness establish trauma theoryâs pertinence to the discipline and practice of history. Trauma theory is associated with the âturn to memoryâ in history as well as in the Humanities more generally. Postmodernismâs problematizations of grand narratives, objectivity, universality and totality prompted a turn to memoryâs partial, local and subjective narratives.
theory. n, pl-ries. 1. a system of rules, procedures, and assumptions used to produce a result. 2. abstract knowledge or reasoning. 3. a speculative or conjectural view or idea: I have a theory about that. 4. an ideal or hypothetical situation (esp in the phrase in theory). 5. a set of hypotheses related by logical or mathematical arguments to explain and predict a wide variety of connected phenomena in general terms: the theory of relativity.