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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... Riot " in Dharavi , Bombay DEEPAK MEHTA and ROMA CHATTERJI Speech and Silence : Women's Testimony in the First Five Weeks of Public Hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission FIONA C. ROSS vii I 31 76 102 157 201 ...
... Riot " in Dharavi , Bombay DEEPAK MEHTA and ROMA CHATTERJI Speech and Silence : Women's Testimony in the First Five Weeks of Public Hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission FIONA C. ROSS vii I 31 76 102 157 201 ...
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... riot in Bombay ( Deepak Mehta and Roma Chatterji ) ; and the complex interweaving of stories in the testimonies offered by women before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa ( Fiona Ross ) . In all these cases the ...
... riot in Bombay ( Deepak Mehta and Roma Chatterji ) ; and the complex interweaving of stories in the testimonies offered by women before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa ( Fiona Ross ) . In all these cases the ...
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... riots was " a multiplicity of fragmented communities , each charting , through reha- bilitation work , its strategies for survival and coexistence . " Nor was it the riots alone that were responsible for this fragmentation . Dharavi ...
... riots was " a multiplicity of fragmented communities , each charting , through reha- bilitation work , its strategies for survival and coexistence . " Nor was it the riots alone that were responsible for this fragmentation . Dharavi ...
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... riot unsettle the com ext to an extent that even the perpetrators can begin to feel that they are the intended victims ... riots that all such markers disappeared and had to be reinterpreted — the difference be- tween interpreting a sign ...
... riot unsettle the com ext to an extent that even the perpetrators can begin to feel that they are the intended victims ... riots that all such markers disappeared and had to be reinterpreted — the difference be- tween interpreting a sign ...
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... 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 answer to the question of what hap- pened . It is not our position that such regimes ...
... 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 answer to the question of what hap- pened . It is not our position that such regimes ...
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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