Violent Reverberations: Global Modalities of Trauma - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 3319390481 ISBN 13: 9783319390482

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Riassunto

The contributions to this volume map the surprisingly multifarious circumstances in which trauma is invoked – as an analytical tool, a therapeutic term or as a discursive trope. By doing so, we critically engage the far too often individuating aspects of trauma, as well as the assumption of a universal somatic that is globally applicable to contexts of human suffering. The volume takes the reader on a journey across widely differing terrains: from Norwegian institutions for psychiatric patients to the post-war emergence of speech genres on violence in Mozambique, from Greek and Cameroonian ritual and carnivalesque treatments of historical trauma to national discourses of political assassinations in Argentina, the volume provides an empirically founded anti-dote against claiming a universal ‘empire of trauma’ (Didier Fassin) or seeing the trauma as successfully defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Instead, the work critically evaluates and engages whether the term’s dual plasticity and endurance captures, encompasses or challenges legacies and imprints of multiple forms of violence. 

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Informazioni sull'autore

Vigdis Broch-Due is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen and Scientific Director at Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Oslo, Norway. Her research in East-Africa spans 3 decades on the ethnography of poverty, gender and embodiment, cosmology, relations between animals, people and nature, pastoralist development, colonialism, violence and trust formation.

Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has researched issues such as state formation, violence, poverty and rural-urban connections in Mozambique since 1998 in addition to having had a long-standing interest in theory development within the discipline of anthropology. 

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The contributions to this volume map the surprisingly multifarious circumstances in which trauma is invoked as an analytical tool, a therapeutic term or as a discursive trope. By doing so, we critically engage the far too often individuating aspects of trauma, as well as the assumption of a universal somatic that is globally applicable to contexts of human suffering. The volume takes the reader on a journey across widely differing terrains: from Norwegian institutions for psychiatric patients to the post-war emergence of speech genres on violence in Mozambique, from Greek and Cameroonian ritual and carnivalesque treatments of historical trauma to national discourses of political assassinations in Argentina, the volume provides an empirically founded anti-dote against claiming a universal empire of trauma (Didier Fassin) or seeing the trauma as successfully defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Instead, the work critically evaluates and engages whether the term s dual plasticity and endurance captures, encompasses or challenges legacies and imprints of multiple forms of violence. 

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3319390481
• ISBN 13: 9783319390482
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 300
• Redattore: Broch-Due Vigdis, Bertelsen Bjrn Enge
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