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REMAKING A WORLD
VIOLENCE, SOCIAL SUFFERING AND RECOVERY |
| By: |
Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret Lock |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£35.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0520223292 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780520223295 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY PRESSES OF CALIFORNIA, COLUMBIA AND PRINCETON |
| Pub. date: |
4 June, 2001 |
| Pages: |
302 |
| Description: |
This third volume on social suffering, violence and recovery explores the ways communities "cope" with traumatic and other more insidious forms of violence, addressing the effects of violence at the level of local worlds, interpersonal relations, and individual lives. |
| 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. |
| Illustrations: |
2 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of California Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |