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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... Sri Lanka in the late 1980s , the fresh attempt to build communities or neighborhoods is never purely a local affair . In fact , it is simultaneously an attempt to redefine and re - create the political society . Such is the case with ...
... Sri Lanka in the late 1980s , the fresh attempt to build communities or neighborhoods is never purely a local affair . In fact , it is simultaneously an attempt to redefine and re - create the political society . Such is the case with ...
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... Sri Lanka , are still too close to the deaths , torture , and disappearance of their children to even be able to own such fears as their own . They seek to hear what they fear most from the mouths of oracles . The image of culture as a ...
... Sri Lanka , are still too close to the deaths , torture , and disappearance of their children to even be able to own such fears as their own . They seek to hear what they fear most from the mouths of oracles . The image of culture as a ...
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... Sri Lanka ( Sasanka Perera ) ; the difficulties of inhabiting a common locality and of carrying life forward after a vicious communal riot in Bombay ( Deepak Mehta and Roma Chatterji ) ; and the complex interweaving of stories in the ...
... Sri Lanka ( Sasanka Perera ) ; the difficulties of inhabiting a common locality and of carrying life forward after a vicious communal riot in Bombay ( Deepak Mehta and Roma Chatterji ) ; and the complex interweaving of stories in the ...
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... Sri Lanka that he describes are all too f miliar : making persons disappear and making bodies appear in strarge and unexpected places ( for example , severed heads lined up around in oth- erwise calming reflective pool near a university ) ...
... Sri Lanka that he describes are all too f miliar : making persons disappear and making bodies appear in strarge and unexpected places ( for example , severed heads lined up around in oth- erwise calming reflective pool near a university ) ...
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... Sri Lanka and communal riots in India , bear to everyday life in society and polity ? Nancy Scheper - Hughes , who has given much thought to this question , asks , " How shall we explain the alarming com- plicity of ' good people ' to ...
... Sri Lanka and communal riots in India , bear to everyday life in society and polity ? Nancy Scheper - Hughes , who has given much thought to this question , asks , " How shall we explain the alarming com- plicity of ' good people ' to ...
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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