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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... violation is more in the nature of policies and programs of the state that have marginalized these communities and endangered their sense of identity . On the other side are the ethnographies of violence in which traumatic events seem ...
... violation is more in the nature of policies and programs of the state that have marginalized these communities and endangered their sense of identity . On the other side are the ethnographies of violence in which traumatic events seem ...
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... violation may become embedded in the everyday lives of marginal groups . The Kui and Cree experiences bear some re- semblance to descriptions of peasants in various parts of Southeast Asia whose resistance to various forms of domination ...
... violation may become embedded in the everyday lives of marginal groups . The Kui and Cree experiences bear some re- semblance to descriptions of peasants in various parts of Southeast Asia whose resistance to various forms of domination ...
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... violation . The stories women tell record impossible levels of violence , but their terror lies in the manner in which the everyday punctuates these ... violations in ex - Yugoslavia or Rwanda , for the hope 12 Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman.
... violation . The stories women tell record impossible levels of violence , but their terror lies in the manner in which the everyday punctuates these ... violations in ex - Yugoslavia or Rwanda , for the hope 12 Veena Das and Arthur Kleinman.
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... violation , offering words that were earlier not permitted to be voiced , the processes in- volved in giving and receiving testimony established a new con ext for the interaction between the perpetrators , witnesses , and survivors ...
... violation , offering words that were earlier not permitted to be voiced , the processes in- volved in giving and receiving testimony established a new con ext for the interaction between the perpetrators , witnesses , and survivors ...
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... violations of the present — it is some- times useful to invoke the voices of the griots , the an- cestral shades and their latter day interpreters , the poets . Memory obviously rejects amnesia , but it re- mains amenable to closure ...
... violations of the present — it is some- times useful to invoke the voices of the griots , the an- cestral shades and their latter day interpreters , the poets . Memory obviously rejects amnesia , but it re- mains amenable to closure ...
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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