Remaking a WorldViolence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

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ID20007415
AuthorsVeena Das (0000-0001-7397-0815), A Kleinman (0000-0003-0721-2017), Mamphela Ramphele, Margaret Lock, Pamela Reynolds
Year2001
Pages304
Publication date2001-06-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueRemaking a World (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520223295.001.0001
OpenAlexW4235002512
Open LibraryOL9390096M
ISBN9780520223295
LanguageEN
Citations received90

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

Psychoanalysis · Sociology · History · Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies · Peace and Human Rights Education · Psychology · Socio-political and Technological Issues · Anthropology · Anthropology, cultural · Community life · Ethnic Studies · Ethnic Studies - General · Interpersonal relations · Social & cultural anthropology · Social aspects · Social Science · Sociology - General · Suffering · Violence · Violence in Society

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