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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... image of culture as a workshop in which subjectivity is shaped seems to offer little scope for the understanding of this oneiric quality of fear captured especially in the chapters by Perera , Ross , and Mehta and Chatterji . In the ...
... image of culture as a workshop in which subjectivity is shaped seems to offer little scope for the understanding of this oneiric quality of fear captured especially in the chapters by Perera , Ross , and Mehta and Chatterji . In the ...
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... images were called forth . Yet the suffering of the women survivors was represented , even in popular novels and cinema , only within the dominant modality of portraying them as suf- fering mothers . Frozen into position as mythical ...
... images were called forth . Yet the suffering of the women survivors was represented , even in popular novels and cinema , only within the dominant modality of portraying them as suf- fering mothers . Frozen into position as mythical ...
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... Images are generated by the media and reports are prepared by judicial commissions , citizens ' committees , and other human rights groups in response to the question : what happened ? Such images and reports are now part of national ...
... Images are generated by the media and reports are prepared by judicial commissions , citizens ' committees , and other human rights groups in response to the question : what happened ? Such images and reports are now part of national ...
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... Images ; Cultural Appropriations of Suffering in Our Times . " In Social Suffering , ed . Arthur Kleinman , Veena Das , and Margaret Lock . Berkeley : University of California Press . Krog , Antjie . 1998. Country of My Skull ...
... Images ; Cultural Appropriations of Suffering in Our Times . " In Social Suffering , ed . Arthur Kleinman , Veena Das , and Margaret Lock . Berkeley : University of California Press . Krog , Antjie . 1998. Country of My Skull ...
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... image of a sacred elephant . A lesser - known fact is that it is the indigenous Kui people who exhibit their elephants and perform the elephant show . Surin province is eth- nically diverse . Besides a small number of Chinese and Thai ...
... image of a sacred elephant . A lesser - known fact is that it is the indigenous Kui people who exhibit their elephants and perform the elephant show . Surin province is eth- nically diverse . Besides a small number of Chinese and Thai ...
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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