Remaking a World Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery [Paperback]

Remaking a Worldcompletes 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,Violence and Subjectivity,contains graphic accounts of how collective experience of violence can alter individual subjectivity. This third volume explores the ways communities cope withendure, work through, break apart under, transcendtraumatic and other more insidious forms of violence, addressing 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 ethnographies bring out both the recalcitrance of tragedy and the meaning of healing in attempts to remake the world.

Veena Dasis A. Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.Arthur Kleinmanis Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Harvard Medical School.Margaret Lockis Professor of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.Mamphela Rampheleis Managing Director of the World Bank and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, wherePamela Reynoldschairs the Department of Social Anthropology. In other combinations, these five are also the editors ofSocial Suffering(California, 1997) andViolence and Subjectivity(California, 2000).

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