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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... rights ? The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is a dramatic effort to provide a public space in which the terror ... human right violations in ex - Yugoslavia or Rwanda , for the hope 12 Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman.
... rights ? The Truth and Reconciliation Commission is a dramatic effort to provide a public space in which the terror ... human right violations in ex - Yugoslavia or Rwanda , for the hope 12 Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman.
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... humanity , abuse of human rights , and claims of social justice seem too large - scale and cliched to deal with the specificity of cases such as those described in the 14 24 Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman.
... humanity , abuse of human rights , and claims of social justice seem too large - scale and cliched to deal with the specificity of cases such as those described in the 14 24 Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman.
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... human rights groups in response to the question : what happened ? Such images and reports are now part of national and even global patterns of consumption through which a new geography of the world has been brought into existence . The ...
... human rights groups in response to the question : what happened ? Such images and reports are now part of national and even global patterns of consumption through which a new geography of the world has been brought into existence . The ...
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... human rights groups ( People's Union of Democratic Rights ) following Hindu - Muslim riots in Bhagalpur in the state of Bihar . He imagines these fragments to be in the nature of partial truths bearing a mimetic relation to the event in ...
... human rights groups ( People's Union of Democratic Rights ) following Hindu - Muslim riots in Bhagalpur in the state of Bihar . He imagines these fragments to be in the nature of partial truths bearing a mimetic relation to the event in ...
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... Human Rights , and twenty - two nongovernmental organizations and institutes of higher learning , was attended by more than three hundred partici- pants , including members of parliament , NGO workers , public servants , academics ...
... Human Rights , and twenty - two nongovernmental organizations and institutes of higher learning , was attended by more than three hundred partici- pants , including members of parliament , NGO workers , public servants , academics ...
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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