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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... killed to be her son . The memoriali- zation of these events is in the register of the everyday , as women speak of the dispersal of families and the extraordinary tasks of continuing to maintain relationships and provide nurturance in ...
... killed to be her son . The memoriali- zation of these events is in the register of the everyday , as women speak of the dispersal of families and the extraordinary tasks of continuing to maintain relationships and provide nurturance in ...
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... killed but not allowed to be officially buried during the communist regime who in turn became kill- ers , and the inability of the Chinese to come to terms with the turmoil , terror , and loss of the Cultural Revolution point to the ...
... killed but not allowed to be officially buried during the communist regime who in turn became kill- ers , and the inability of the Chinese to come to terms with the turmoil , terror , and loss of the Cultural Revolution point to the ...
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... killing of Polish Jews and Gypsies , who together com- promised such a large minority of pre - World War II Poland . Continuity often means collective amnesia and rewriting of the historical record . Political and social transformation ...
... killing of Polish Jews and Gypsies , who together com- promised such a large minority of pre - World War II Poland . Continuity often means collective amnesia and rewriting of the historical record . Political and social transformation ...
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... Killed with Our Families : Stories from Rwanda . New York : Farrar , Straus , and Giroux . Gupta , Akhil , and James Ferguson . 1997. " Culture , Power , Place : Ethnography at the End of an Era . " In Culture , Power , Place ...
... Killed with Our Families : Stories from Rwanda . New York : Farrar , Straus , and Giroux . Gupta , Akhil , and James Ferguson . 1997. " Culture , Power , Place : Ethnography at the End of an Era . " In Culture , Power , Place ...
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... Killed with Our Families . The New York Times Book Review , October 4 , p . 11 . - . 1999. The Burden of Memory : The Muse of Forgiveness . New York : Oxford University Press . Spencer , Jonathan . 1990. " Collective Violence and ...
... Killed with Our Families . The New York Times Book Review , October 4 , p . 11 . - . 1999. The Burden of Memory : The Muse of Forgiveness . New York : Oxford University Press . Spencer , Jonathan . 1990. " Collective Violence and ...
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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