Violence and Subjectivity

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

AvVeena Das,Arthur Kleinman,Mamphela Ramphele,Pamela Reynolds

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The essays in "Violence and Subjectivity", written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. Like its predecessor volume, "Social Suffering", which explored the different ways social force inflicts harm on individuals and groups, this collection ventures into many areas of ongoing violence, asking how people live with themselves and others when perpetrators, victims, and witnesses all come from the same social space. From civil wars and ethnic riots to governmental and medical interventions at a more bureaucratic level, the authors address not only those extreme situations guaranteed to occupy precious media minutes but also the more subtle violences of science and state. However particular and circumscribed the site of any fieldwork may be, today's ethnographer finds local identities and circumstances molded by state and transnational forces, including the media themselves.These authors contest a new political geography that divides the world into 'violence-prone areas' and 'peaceful areas' and suggest that such descriptions might themselves contribute to violence in the present global context.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2000-10-02
Mått152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor389
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520216082

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Veena Das is Professor of Sociology at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, and Professor of Anthropology at the New School Graduate Faculty in New York. Arthur Kleinman is Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School. Mamphela Ramphele is Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town. Pamela Reynolds is Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSIntroductionVeena Das and Arthur KleinmanViolence-Prone Area or International Transition?Adding the Role of Outsiders in Balkan ViolenceSusan L. WoodwardViolence and Vision:The Prosthetics and Aesthetics of TerrorAllen FeldmanCircumcision, Body, Masculinity:The Ritual Wound and Collective ViolenceDeepak MehtaTeach Me How to Be a Man:An Exploration of the Definition of MasculinityMamphela RampheleOn Not Becoming a "Terrorist": Problems of Memory,Agency, and Community in the Sri Lankan ConflictJonathan SpencerThe Ground of All Making:State Violence, the Family, and Political ActivistsPamela ReynoldsViolence, Suffering, Amman:The Work of Oracles in Sri Lanka's Eastern War ZonePatricia LawrenceThe Act of Witnessing:Violence, Poisonous Knowledge, and SubjectivityVeena DasThe Violences of Everyday Life:The Multiple Forms and Dynamics of Social ViolenceArthur KleinmanBody and Space in a Time of Crisis:Sterilization and Resettlement during the Emergency in DelhiEmma TarloThe Quest for Human Organs and the Violence of ZealMargaret LockMayan Multiculturalism and the Violence of MemoriesKay B. WarrenReconciliation and Memory in Postwar NigeriaMurray LastMood, Moment, and MindE. Valentine DanielLIST OF CONTRIBUTORSINDEX