Healing and Change in the City of Gold
. Ed(S): Palmary, Ingrid; Hamber, Brandon; Nunez, Lorena
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Paperback. Editor(s): Palmary, Ingrid; Hamber, Brandon; Nunez, Lorena. Series: Peace Psychology Book Series. Num Pages: 195 pages, 2 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JMH; JPA; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 308.
This volume collects case studies on the lives of people living in post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. In doing so, it considers how people manage, respond to, narrate and/or silence their experiences of past and present violence, multiple insecurities and precarity in contexts where these experiences take on an everyday continuous character. Taking seriously how context shapes the meaning of violence, the forms of response, and the consequences thereof, the contributing chapter authors use participatory and ethnographic techniques to understand people’s everyday responses to the violence and insecurity they face in contemporary Johannesburg. Each case study documents an example of a ... Read more
This volume collects case studies on the lives of people living in post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. In doing so, it considers how people manage, respond to, narrate and/or silence their experiences of past and present violence, multiple insecurities and precarity in contexts where these experiences take on an everyday continuous character. Taking seriously how context shapes the meaning of violence, the forms of response, and the consequences thereof, the contributing chapter authors use participatory and ethnographic techniques to understand people’s everyday responses to the violence and insecurity they face in contemporary Johannesburg. Each case study documents an example of a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
Series
Peace Psychology Book Series
Number of Pages
187
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319353838
SKU
V9783319353838
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Palmary, Ingrid; Hamber, Brandon; Nunez, Lorena
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 ... Read more
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