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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... everyday life are the subjects of the six essays in this volume . Much has been written and continues to be written ... everyday only as the site of the taken - for - granted , the " uneventful , " from which one seeks escape in the ...
... everyday life are the subjects of the six essays in this volume . Much has been written and continues to be written ... everyday only as the site of the taken - for - granted , the " uneventful , " from which one seeks escape in the ...
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... everyday after such overwhelming experiences of social suffering , and how do people learn to engage in it ? Is it possible to speak of this re - engagement as a healing at the level of the community and of the individual ? Are these ...
... everyday after such overwhelming experiences of social suffering , and how do people learn to engage in it ? Is it possible to speak of this re - engagement as a healing at the level of the community and of the individual ? Are these ...
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... everyday forms , at the level of local worlds , interper- sonal relations , and individual lives . The process of producing this volume was itself an interesting one . While each essay describes the theoretical issues in a specific ...
... everyday forms , at the level of local worlds , interper- sonal relations , and individual lives . The process of producing this volume was itself an interesting one . While each essay describes the theoretical issues in a specific ...
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... everyday , resuming the task of living ( and not only surviving ) , asks for a renewed capability to address the future . How does one shape a future in which the collective experience of violence and terror can find recognition in the ...
... everyday , resuming the task of living ( and not only surviving ) , asks for a renewed capability to address the future . How does one shape a future in which the collective experience of violence and terror can find recognition in the ...
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... everyday life , the efforts required to reproduce the everyday , are not equally implicated in the formation of subjectivity . The notions of sub- altern resistance , of hidden scripts , and of other such resting points where it seems ...
... everyday life , the efforts required to reproduce the everyday , are not equally implicated in the formation of subjectivity . The notions of sub- altern resistance , of hidden scripts , and of other such resting points where it seems ...
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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