Postcolonial disorders / edited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio.

Series:

Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity

Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology.

Diseases--Social aspects.

Diseases.

Colonization--Social aspects.

Colonization.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Subjectivity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays in this 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 Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programs in China and the Republic of Congo, 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. Painting on book jacket by Entang Wiharso

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Postcolonial Disorders: Reflections On Subjectivity In The Contemporary World

1. Madness And The Politically Real: Reflections On Violence In Postdictatorial Spain

2. Indonesia Sakit: Indonesian Disorders And The Subjective Experience And Interpretive Politics Of Contemporary Indonesian Artists

3. The Political Dimensions Of Emasculation: Fantasy, Conspiracy, And Estrangement Among Populist Leaders In Post-New Order Lombok, Indonesia

4. Haunting Ghosts: Madness, Gender, And Ensekirite In Haiti In The Democratic Era

5. Laboratory Of Intervention: The Humanitarian Governance Of The Postcommunist Balkan Territories

6. Everyday Aids Practices: Contestations Of Borders And Infectious Disease In Southwest China

7. Of Maids And Prostitutes: Indonesian Female Migrants In The New Asian Hinterlands

8. Ambivalent Inquiry: Dilemmas Of Aids In The Republic Of Congo

9. To Live With What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable, Ii: Caught In The Borderlands Of Palestine/Israel

10. The Mucker War: A History Of Violence And Silence

11. Institutional Persons And Personal Institutions: The Asylum And Marginality In Rural Ireland

12. The Knot Of The Soul: Postcolonial Conundrums, Madness, And The Imagination

13. Consuming Grief: Infant Death In The Postcolonial Time Of Intervention

14. Postcoloniality As The Aftermath Of Terror Among Vietnamese Refugees

15. Cross-Cultural Psychiatry In Medical-Legal Documentation Of Suffering: Human Rights Abuses Involving Transnational Corporations And The Yadana Pipeline Project In Burma

Contributors

Index

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786611385668

9781435653696

1435653696

9781281385666

1281385662

9780520941021

0520941020

OCLC:

254162145