Remaking a World - Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

Author: Veena DassArthur Kleinman/Editor: Margret Lock / Mamphela Ramphele / Pamela ReynoldPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2002Language: EnglishPages: 294ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195660439 DescriptionThis collection of ethnographies explores how communities make sense of, and 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.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 volume, violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how the collective experience of violence alter individual subjectivity.The contributors highlight the complex relationship between recognition of suffering in the public sphere and experienced suffering in people's everyday lives. Ric