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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... contexts of these studies are diverse , their resemblance lies in the crisscrossing and overlapping of certain key questions . They extend our concepts of social suffering , violence , coping , and healing , in the way one twists fiber ...
... contexts of these studies are diverse , their resemblance lies in the crisscrossing and overlapping of certain key questions . They extend our concepts of social suffering , violence , coping , and healing , in the way one twists fiber ...
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... contexts of their lives . When such subject positions are assigned they can lay to waste whole forests of significant ... context , and signature in the process of telling . There is clearly a tension between interpreting a violent event ...
... contexts of their lives . When such subject positions are assigned they can lay to waste whole forests of significant ... context , and signature in the process of telling . There is clearly a tension between interpreting a violent event ...
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... contexts through which everyday life may become possible . That communities formed in suffering do not always succeed in this , and that life can drain out of words that signify healing and overcoming of tragedy , and that as the ...
... contexts through which everyday life may become possible . That communities formed in suffering do not always succeed in this , and that life can drain out of words that signify healing and overcoming of tragedy , and that as the ...
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... context of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa , repeats the gendered nature of recounting traumatic experiences.5 She notes that women testified primarily against the brutality committed on sons , husbands , and ...
... context of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa , repeats the gendered nature of recounting traumatic experiences.5 She notes that women testified primarily against the brutality committed on sons , husbands , and ...
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... ) . One of the most difficult tasks before survivors is to remember not only objective events but also one's own place in those events . " In this context Sasanka Perera's account of ghost stories and 14 Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman.
... ) . One of the most difficult tasks before survivors is to remember not only objective events but also one's own place in those events . " In this context Sasanka Perera's account of ghost stories and 14 Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman.
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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