ISBN:
0520941020
,
9780520941021
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xii, 465 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
[Ethnographic studies in subjectivity 8]
Parallel Title:
Print version Postcolonial disorders
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Diseases Social aspects
;
Colonization Social aspects
;
Globalization Social aspects
;
Medical anthropology
;
Subjectivity
;
Colonization Social aspects
;
Globalization Social aspects
;
Diseases Social aspects
;
Colonization Social aspects
;
Globalization Social aspects
;
Subjectivity
;
Diseases Social aspects
;
Medical anthropology
;
Vulnerable Populations psychology
;
Socioeconomic Factors
;
Social Medicine
;
Politics
;
Cross-Cultural Comparison
;
Colonialism
;
Anthropology methods
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General
;
Colonization ; Social aspects
;
Diseases ; Social aspects
;
Globalization ; Social aspects
;
Medical anthropology
;
Subjectivity
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The contributors explore 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 programmes in China and Zaire, and psychiatrists and their patients in Morocco and Ireland
Description / Table of Contents:
Postcolonial disorders : reflections on subjectivity in the contemporary world / Byron J. Good [and others]Madness and the politically real : reflections on violence in postdictatorial Spain / Begoña Aretxaga -- Indonesia Sakit : Indonesian disorders and the subjective experience and interpretive politics of contemporary Indonesian artists / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Byron J. Good -- The political dimensions of emasculation : fantasy, conspiracy, and estrangement among populist leaders in post-new order Lombok, Indonesia / John M. McDougall -- Haunting ghosts : madness, gender, and Ensekirite in Haiti in the democratic era / Erica Caple James -- Laboratory of intervention : the humanitarian governance of the postcommunist Balkan territories / Mariella Pandolfi -- Everyday AIDS practices : contestations of borders and infectious disease in southwest China / Sandra Teresa Hyde -- Of maids and prostitutes : Indonesian female migrants in the new Asian hinterlands / Johan Lindquist -- Ambivalent inquiry : dilemmas of AIDS in the Republic of Congo / David Eaton -- To live with what would otherwise be unendurable, II : caught in the borderlands of Palestine/Israel / Michael M.J. Fischer -- The Mucker War : a history of violence and silence / João Biehl -- Institutional persons and personal institutions : the asylum and marginality in rural Ireland / A. Jamie Saris -- The knot of the soul : postcolonial conundrums, madness, and the imagination / Stefania Pandolfo -- Consuming grief : infant death in the postcolonial time of intervention / Sarah Pinto -- Postcoloniality as the aftermath of terror among Vietnamese refugees / Janis H. Jenkins, Michael Hollifield -- Cross-cultural psychiatry in medical-legal documentation of suffering : human rights abuses involving transnational corporations and Yadana Pipeline Project in Burma / Kathleen Allden.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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