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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2001. 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, |
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... mother " role often assigned to the women survivors of Hiroshima ) become completely or partially disconnected from the on- going contexts of their lives . When such subject positions are assigned they can lay to waste whole forests of ...
... mother " role often assigned to the women survivors of Hiroshima ) become completely or partially disconnected from the on- going contexts of their lives . When such subject positions are assigned they can lay to waste whole forests of ...
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... mothers in Sri Lanka , are still too close to the deaths , torture , and disappearance of their children to even be able to own such fears as their own . They seek to hear what they fear most from the mouths of oracles . The image of ...
... mothers in Sri Lanka , are still too close to the deaths , torture , and disappearance of their children to even be able to own such fears as their own . They seek to hear what they fear most from the mouths of oracles . The image of ...
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... mothers . Frozen into position as mythical mothers , as women who showed inhuman strength and endurance , the stereotypes fixed women's experiences within certain permitted genres of expression . Women whose children did not survive ...
... mothers . Frozen into position as mythical mothers , as women who showed inhuman strength and endurance , the stereotypes fixed women's experiences within certain permitted genres of expression . Women whose children did not survive ...
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... mothers maintained the everyday relationships . Hence there is an inter- weaving in their stories of different voices — their own suffering is em- bodied in the suffering of their kinsmen and kinswomen . The emergence of voice in ...
... mothers maintained the everyday relationships . Hence there is an inter- weaving in their stories of different voices — their own suffering is em- bodied in the suffering of their kinsmen and kinswomen . The emergence of voice in ...
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... mother elephant didn't have enough milk to feed her baby . He soon found the calf starving . Struggling to save his elephant calf , Kru Ba Panya went to the provincial administrative office for help . Since elephant affairs are so ...
... mother elephant didn't have enough milk to feed her baby . He soon found the calf starving . Struggling to save his elephant calf , Kru Ba Panya went to the provincial administrative office for help . Since elephant affairs are so ...
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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