Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

by Veena Das, Arthur Kleinman, Margaret M. Lock, Mamphela Ramphele, and Pamela Reynolds

Veena Das (Editor), Arthur Kleinman (Editor), Margaret M. Lock (Editor), Mamphela Ramphele (Editor), and Pamela Reynolds (Editor)

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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.
  • ISBN10 0520223292
  • ISBN13 9780520223295
  • Publish Date 4 June 2001
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 13 December 2007
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of California Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 302
  • Language English