Healing and Change in the City of Gold

Ingrid Palmary is an associate professor at the in the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand. Ingrid joined Wits in 2005 after completing her PhD (psychology) at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Prior to joining Wits she worked at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation as a senior researcher. Her research has been in the field of gender, violence and displacement. Professor Brandon Hamber is Director of the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE), an associate site of the United Nations University based at the University of Ulster. He is a Mellon Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the School of Human and Community Development at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was born in South Africa and currently lives in Belfast. In South Africa he trained as a Clinical Psychologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ulster. Lorena Nunez (Ph.D) is a social anthropologist with specialization in Medical Anthropology. Her earlier work experience was in the field of gender and development as researcher and activist in the women’s movement in Chile in the 1990’s.

• Chapter 1: Case studies of precarious life in Johannesburg.- Chapter 2: The Suitcase Project: Working with unaccompanied child refugees in new ways.- Chapter 3: Shaping New Spaces: An alternative approach to healing in current “shelter” interventions for vulnerable women in Johannesburg.- Chapter 4.Violence and Memory in Breaking the Silence of Gukurahundi: A case study of the ZAM in Johannesburg, South Africa.- Chapter 5: Between remorse and nostalgia: Haunting memories of war and the search for healing among former Zimbabwean soldiers in exile in South Africa.- Chapter 6: Violence, suffering and support: Congolese forced migrants’ experiences of psychosocial services in Johannesburg.- Chapter 7:Watching each others’ back, coping with precarity in sex work.-  Chapter 8:Tormented by Umnyama: An urban cosmology of migration and misfortune in inner-city Johannesburg.- Chapter 9: Faith healing, migration and gendered conversions in Pentecostal churches in Johannesburg.- Chapter 10: Healing and deliverance in the city of gold.