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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... voice in the face of recalcitrance of tragedy ; and ( d ) meaning of healing and the return to everyday . The social and cultural contexts of these ethnographies are varied . Yet there are important similarities in the way in which the ...
... voice in the face of recalcitrance of tragedy ; and ( d ) meaning of healing and the return to everyday . The social and cultural contexts of these ethnographies are varied . Yet there are important similarities in the way in which the ...
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... voice in community with other voices . Emerging from the studies that follow is the stunning fact that even in the " oneiric geography of fear " ( Pandolfo 1997 ) , as in the postapartheid society of South Africa or dur- ing the period ...
... voice in community with other voices . Emerging from the studies that follow is the stunning fact that even in the " oneiric geography of fear " ( Pandolfo 1997 ) , as in the postapartheid society of South Africa or dur- ing the period ...
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... voice , which comes back as the experience of dispossession . One of the strengths of the ethnographies presented here is that these questions have been addressed by paying close attention not only to the content of narratives , but ...
... voice , which comes back as the experience of dispossession . One of the strengths of the ethnographies presented here is that these questions have been addressed by paying close attention not only to the content of narratives , but ...
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... voice in the making of one's history , the remaking of a world , though , is also a matter of being able to ... voices to the collective representations of themselves as the silent enduring mothers . The rich contextualization provided ...
... voice in the making of one's history , the remaking of a world , though , is also a matter of being able to ... voices to the collective representations of themselves as the silent enduring mothers . The rich contextualization provided ...
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... voice in their history engages the public and private dimensions of experience by reformulating questions of history and tradition , not only within discursive formations but also in the new ways in which their identity is sought to be ...
... voice in their history engages the public and private dimensions of experience by reformulating questions of history and tradition , not only within discursive formations but also in the new ways in which their identity is sought to be ...
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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