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Testimony after Catastrophe: Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence (Rethinking Theory)
Stevan Weine
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Paperback. Survivors of political violence give testimonies, which tell stories that may change history, polities, and life itself. This book is committed to the proposition that efforts to use testimony to address the consequences of political violence can be strengthened, if they are based on a fuller acknowledgment of the personal and ethical elements. Series Editor(s): Morson, Gary Saul. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JPW; MMH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 349.
Survivors of political violence give testimonies in families and communities, trials and truth commissions, religious institutions, psychotherapies, newspapers, documentaries, artworks, and even in solitude. Through spoken, written, and visual images, survivors' testimonies tell stories that may change history, polities, and life itself. In this book Stevan Weine, a psychiatrist and scholar in the field of mental health and human rights, focuses on the testimony of survivors for the hope it might hold - hope expressed by survivors again and again that, no matter what horrors or humiliations they have endured, some good might come of their stories. It is through ... Read more
Survivors of political violence give testimonies in families and communities, trials and truth commissions, religious institutions, psychotherapies, newspapers, documentaries, artworks, and even in solitude. Through spoken, written, and visual images, survivors' testimonies tell stories that may change history, polities, and life itself. In this book Stevan Weine, a psychiatrist and scholar in the field of mental health and human rights, focuses on the testimony of survivors for the hope it might hold - hope expressed by survivors again and again that, no matter what horrors or humiliations they have endured, some good might come of their stories. It is through ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Condition
New
Series
Rethinking Theory
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810123014
SKU
V9780810123014
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About Stevan Weine
Stevan Weine, M.D. is professor of psychiatry and director of the International Center on Responses to Catastrophes at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of When History is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Rutgers, 1999).
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