The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to by Ron Eyerman

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By Ron Eyerman

In November 2004, the debatable Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was once killed on a hectic highway in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to his physique. The homicide trigger a sequence of reactions, together with arson opposed to Muslim faculties and mosques. In The Assassination of Theo van Gogh, Ron Eyerman explores the a number of meanings of the homicide and the several reactions it elicited: one of the Amsterdam-based creative and highbrow culture, the broader Dutch public, the neighborhood and overseas Muslim groups, the unconventional Islamic flow, and the wider overseas neighborhood. After meticulously examining the activities and reputations of van Gogh and others in his milieu, the causes of the assassin, and the main points of the assassination itself, Eyerman considers many of the narrative frames the mass media used to symbolize the killing.

Eyerman makes use of theories of social drama and cultural trauma to judge the reactions to and results of the homicide. A social drama is prompted via a public transgression of taken-for-granted norms; person who threatens the collective id of a society might turn into a cultural trauma. Eyerman contends that the assassination of Theo van Gogh fast grew to become a cultural trauma since it resonated powerfully with the postwar psyche of the Netherlands. As a part of his research of the homicide and reactions to it, he discusses major points of twentieth-century Dutch heritage, together with the country’s remedy of Jews throughout the German profession, the lack of its colonies within the wake of worldwide conflict II, its recruitment of immigrant staff, and the failure of Dutch troops to guard Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995.

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The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma (Politics, History, and Culture)

In November 2004, the arguable Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh used to be killed on a hectic highway in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to his physique. The homicide trigger a sequence of reactions, together with arson opposed to Muslim faculties and mosques.

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