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. |
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... bodies are marked by the signs of brutality : the violence is visible in radiation disease , wounds , destroyed houses , and the dishev- eled , dispossessed bodies of women . The process of reinhabiting these spaces of terror puts ...
... bodies are marked by the signs of brutality : the violence is visible in radiation disease , wounds , destroyed houses , and the dishev- eled , dispossessed bodies of women . The process of reinhabiting these spaces of terror puts ...
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... bodies appear in strarge and unexpected places ( for example , severed heads lined up around in oth- erwise calming reflective pool near a university ) . Perera goes or to tell us a good deal about culturally authorized forms such as ...
... bodies appear in strarge and unexpected places ( for example , severed heads lined up around in oth- erwise calming reflective pool near a university ) . Perera goes or to tell us a good deal about culturally authorized forms such as ...
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... bodies of individual vic- tims . This chapter is about a form of social suffering that unequivocally resists such individualization . It is about the predicament of political marginality : the afflicting experience of those whose social ...
... bodies of individual vic- tims . This chapter is about a form of social suffering that unequivocally resists such individualization . It is about the predicament of political marginality : the afflicting experience of those whose social ...
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... bodies or the network of disciplines and punishments . Rather , it is exclusion and indifference ( Herzfeld 1992 ) that have provided the modern Thai state with new sources of power . In order to place the first part in a larger context ...
... bodies or the network of disciplines and punishments . Rather , it is exclusion and indifference ( Herzfeld 1992 ) that have provided the modern Thai state with new sources of power . In order to place the first part in a larger context ...
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... bodies tattooed and registered as corvee . Periodically also the government would organize expeditions to catch people who refused to register . The most extensive registration by tattooing in the northeast began in the reign of King ...
... bodies tattooed and registered as corvee . Periodically also the government would organize expeditions to catch people who refused to register . The most extensive registration by tattooing in the northeast began in the reign of King ...
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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