Remaking a World – Violence, Social Suffering & Recovery: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery - Hardcover

Das, Veena

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520223292 ISBN 13: 9780520223295

Publisher: University of California Press, 2001

Synopsis

Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first voluem, 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. The third explores the ways communities "cope" with - endure, work through, break apart under, transcend - traumatic and other more insidious forms of violence, addresing 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 ethngraphies bring out both the recalcitrance of tragedy and the meaning of healing in attempts to remake the worl.

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Review:

"The ethnographic studies in this volume are outstanding, and together offer a brilliant mix of materials for throwing light on the representation of violence and suffering in the public sphere. Das and Kleinman introduce the collection with an elegant and deeply insightful set of theoretical reflections on narrative, voice, and social suffering." - Kenneth M. George, author of Showing Signs of Violence"

About the Author:

Veena Das ia A. Krleger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Arthur Kleiman is Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Harvard Medical School. Margaret Lock is Professor of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. Mamphela Ramphele is Managing Director of the World Bank and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, where Pamela Reynolds chairs the Department of Social Anthropology. In other combinations, these five are also the editors of Social Suffering (California, 1997) and Violence and Subjectivity (California, 2000).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0520223292
• ISBN 13: 9780520223295
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304