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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... 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.
... 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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... victims ; others , such as the 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 ...
... victims ; others , such as the 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 ...
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... victims and survivors figure prominently in the goals for the nation or the world , or instead find a place as by - products of fact - finding , guilt - finding , and punishment ? Martha Minow Various writers have addressed the relation ...
... victims and survivors figure prominently in the goals for the nation or the world , or instead find a place as by - products of fact - finding , guilt - finding , and punishment ? Martha Minow Various writers have addressed the relation ...
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... victims . This removal of access to context is when language seems to take on an infectious quality and the dominant affect becomes that of panic . So in Dharavi , where even the " ordinary " act of perform- ing the morning ablutions is ...
... victims . This removal of access to context is when language seems to take on an infectious quality and the dominant affect becomes that of panic . So in Dharavi , where even the " ordinary " act of perform- ing the morning ablutions is ...
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... victims and perpetrators , for in most local contexts these lines are not sharply divided , for precisely the reasons we mentioned earlier . Thus efforts at rehabilitation of victims in Dharavi were themselves ambivalent and point to a ...
... victims and perpetrators , for in most local contexts these lines are not sharply divided , for precisely the reasons we mentioned earlier . Thus efforts at rehabilitation of victims in Dharavi were themselves ambivalent and point to a ...
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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