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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... testimonies offered by women before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa ( Fiona Ross ) . In all these cases the societal spaces as well as individual bodies are marked by the signs of brutality : the violence is ...
... testimonies offered by women before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa ( Fiona Ross ) . In all these cases the societal spaces as well as individual bodies are marked by the signs of brutality : the violence is ...
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... testimonies of women , this time in the context of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa , repeats the gendered nature of recounting traumatic experiences.5 She notes that women testified primarily against the ...
... testimonies of women , this time in the context of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa , repeats the gendered nature of recounting traumatic experiences.5 She notes that women testified primarily against the ...
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... testimonies offered before the Commission , one is not only reading the events through the testi- monial accounts but is also being read . That is to say that while the texts of the testimonies might be about the experiences of ...
... testimonies offered before the Commission , one is not only reading the events through the testi- monial accounts but is also being read . That is to say that while the texts of the testimonies might be about the experiences of ...
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... testimonies of sur- vivors in South Africa , or in stories related by survivors of ethnic vio- lence in Sri Lanka and communal riots in India , bear to everyday life in society and polity ? Nancy Scheper - Hughes , who has given much ...
... testimonies of sur- vivors in South Africa , or in stories related by survivors of ethnic vio- lence in Sri Lanka and communal riots in India , bear to everyday life in society and polity ? Nancy Scheper - Hughes , who has given much ...
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... Testimonies established at the Yale University in 1982 ( see Langer 1991 ) . The context in which the ethnographer listens is ( or could be ) of a different order , for memory is articulated within local communities through several ...
... Testimonies established at the Yale University in 1982 ( see Langer 1991 ) . The context in which the ethnographer listens is ( or could be ) of a different order , for memory is articulated within local communities through several ...
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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