Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and RecoveryVeena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret M. Lock, Mamphela Ramphele, Pamela Reynolds Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how collective experience of violence can alter individual subjectivity. This third volume explores the ways communities "cope" with—endure, work through, break apart under, transcend—traumatic and other more insidious forms of violence, addressing the effects of violence at the level of local worlds, interpersonal relations, and individual lives. The authors highlight the complex relationship between recognition of suffering in the public sphere and experienced suffering in people's everyday lives. Rich in local detail, the book's comparative ethnographies bring out both the recalcitrance of tragedy and the meaning of healing in attempts to remake the world. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2001. Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, |
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... Kui marginal identities have been constructed in historical dis- course by examining the representations of the Kui in official Siamese historiography . Then , drawing on my ethnographic inquiry , I will dis- cuss how the Kui's ...
... Kui marginal identities have been constructed in historical dis- course by examining the representations of the Kui in official Siamese historiography . Then , drawing on my ethnographic inquiry , I will dis- cuss how the Kui's ...
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... Kui's experience of po- litical marginality at the local level and the emerging collective political consciousness at the macrosocial levels took place . Such resonating re- percussion brought about a new awareness among local Kui ...
... Kui's experience of po- litical marginality at the local level and the emerging collective political consciousness at the macrosocial levels took place . Such resonating re- percussion brought about a new awareness among local Kui ...
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... Kui have no independent nation - state with which they can identify . A high- ranking local official remarked upon my arrival that not having a nation of their own is unmistakably a sign of the Kui's inferiority and degra- dation ...
... Kui have no independent nation - state with which they can identify . A high- ranking local official remarked upon my arrival that not having a nation of their own is unmistakably a sign of the Kui's inferiority and degra- dation ...
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... Kui's historicity is found in their absence ; we can decipher their existence only by reading history against the grain . And this critically interpretive reading is necessary to find a place in history for the Kui . To be sure , the Kui's ...
... Kui's historicity is found in their absence ; we can decipher their existence only by reading history against the grain . And this critically interpretive reading is necessary to find a place in history for the Kui . To be sure , the Kui's ...
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... Kui's historical knowledge has now become a subjugated knowledge struggling to survive under the hege- mony of the ... Kui are not a people without history , nor do they live outside history . To be sure , their historical consciousness ...
... Kui's historical knowledge has now become a subjugated knowledge struggling to survive under the hege- mony of the ... Kui are not a people without history , nor do they live outside history . To be sure , their historical consciousness ...
Contents
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An Indigenous Peoples Response to Social Suffering | 76 |
Women and the Atom Bomb | 102 |
Stories of Supernatural Activity as Narratives of Terror and Mechanisms of Coping and Remembering | 157 |
A Case Study of a Communal Riot in Dharavi Bombay | 201 |
Womens Testimony in the First Five Weeks of Public Hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission | 250 |
Contributors | 281 |
Index | 283 |
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