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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... survivors of collective trag- edies in , on the one hand , creating a public space in which experience of victims and survivors can not only be represented but also be molded , and , on the other , engaging in repair of Introduction 3.
... survivors of collective trag- edies in , on the one hand , creating a public space in which experience of victims and survivors can not only be represented but also be molded , and , on the other , engaging in repair of Introduction 3.
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... survivors . In collecting the narratives of survivors by directly participating in the contexts in which stories are made , the au- thors of the essays in this volume show the tremendous tensions between competing truths : they explore ...
... survivors . In collecting the narratives of survivors by directly participating in the contexts in which stories are made , the au- thors of the essays in this volume show the tremendous tensions between competing truths : they explore ...
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... survivors for forging memory and forgetfulness in new ways . On the other hand , the call by the Kui and the Cree for recognition of their own voice in their history engages the public and private dimensions of experience by ...
... survivors for forging memory and forgetfulness in new ways . On the other hand , the call by the Kui and the Cree for recognition of their own voice in their history engages the public and private dimensions of experience by ...
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... survivors of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki , carries a different significance for world history . Quite apart from the terrible suffering and death it caused ( and continues to cause ) hundreds of thousands of Japanese , the ...
... survivors of atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki , carries a different significance for world history . Quite apart from the terrible suffering and death it caused ( and continues to cause ) hundreds of thousands of Japanese , the ...
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... survivors . Those who had been silently complicit or actively involved in perpetrating vi- olence had to also learn to read themselves . A recent account by Antjie Korg of her personal transformation as an Afrikaans woman while ob ...
... survivors . Those who had been silently complicit or actively involved in perpetrating vi- olence had to also learn to read themselves . A recent account by Antjie Korg of her personal transformation as an Afrikaans woman while ob ...
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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