Postcolonial disorders / edited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology.

Diseases--Social aspects.

Diseases.

Colonization--Social aspects.

Colonization.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Subjectivity.

Physical Description:

xii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]

Summary:

The essays in this provocative volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of violent Basque youth, visionary Indonesian artists, bureaucrats and members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and Zaire, psychiatrists and the mentally ill in Morocco and Ireland, and persons who have suffered trauma or been displaced by violence in the Middle East and in South and Southeast Asia. The contributors' analyses place the political at the heart of the psychological and the psychological at the heart of the political as the starting point for rethinking subjectivity.

Contents:

Postcolonial Disorders: Reflections on Subjectivity in the Contemporary World / Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Sarah Pinto 1

Part I Disordered States

1 Madness and the Politically Real: Reflections on Violence in Postdictatorial Spain / Begona Aretxaga 43

2 Indonesia Sakit: Indonesian Disorders and the Subjective Experience and Interpretive Politics of Contemporary Indonesian Artists / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Byron J. Good 62

3 The Political Dimensions of Emasculation: Fantasy, Conspiracy, and Estrangement among Populist Leaders in Post-New Order Lombok, Indonesia / John M. MacDougall 109

4 Haunting Ghosts: Madness, Gender, and Ensekirite in Haiti in the Democratic Era / Erica Caple James 132

5 Laboratory of Intervention: The Humanitarian Governance of the Postcommunist Balkan Territories / Mariella Pandolfi 157

Part II Subjectivity in the Borderlands

6 Everyday AIDS Practices: Contestations of Borders and Infectious Disease in Southwest China / Sandra Teresa Hyde 189

7 Of Maids and Prostitutes: Indonesian Female Migrants in the New Asian Hinterlands / Johan Lindquist 218

8 Ambivalent Inquiry: Dilemmas of AIDS in the Republic of Congo / David Eaton 238

9 To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable, II: Caught in the Borderlands of Palestine/Israel / Michael M. J. Fischer 260

Part III Madness, Alterity, and Psychiatry

10 The Mucker War: A History of Violence and Silence / Joao Biehl 279

11 Institutional Persons and Personal Institutions: The Asylum and Marginality in Rural Ireland / A. Jamie Saris 309

12 The Knot of the Soul: Postcolonial Conundrums, Madness, and the Imagination / Stefania Pandolfo 329

13 Consuming Grief: Infant Death in the Postcolonial Time of Intervention / Sarah Pinto 359

14 Postcoloniality as the Aftermath of Terror among Vietnamese Refugees / Janis H. Jenkins, Michael Hollifield 378

15 Cross-Cultural Psychiatry in Medical-Legal Documentation of Suffering: Human Rights Abuses Involving Transnational Corporations and the Yadana Pipeline Project in Burma / Kathleen Allden 397.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520252233

0520252233

9780520252240

0520252241

OCLC:

156975270