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"Coming home" from trauma : the next generation, muteness, and the search for a voice
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Year: 1996 Publisher: Hamburg : International Study Group for Trauma, Violence and Genocide,

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Victims of political violence and terrorism : making up resilient survivors
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ISBN: 1003154026 1000564541 0367722461 100056455X Year: 2022 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This book examines the survivors of political violence and terrorism, considering both how they have responded and how they have been responded to following critical incidents. As this work demonstrates, survivors of comparatively rare and spectacular violence hold a mirror up to society's normative assumptions around trauma, recovery, and resilience. Drawing on two years of observational field research with a British NGO who work with victims and former perpetrators of PVT, this book explores contested notions of resilience' and what it might mean for those negotiating the aftermaths of violence. Examining knowledge about resilience from a multitude of sources, including security policy, media, academic literature, and the survivors themselves, this book contends that in order to make empirical sense of resilience we must reckon with both its discursive and practical manifestations. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, victimology, criminal justice, and all those interested in the stories of survivors.


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Afterlives of war : a descendants' history
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ISBN: 1526154048 9781526154040 9781526154026 152615403X Year: 2023 Publisher: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press,

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Afterlives of War documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations who grew up in Australia, Britain and Germany after the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to the conflict, they experienced its effects from their earliest years. Based on ninety oral history interviews and observation during the First World War Centenary, this pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War, and the intimate personal legacies of the conflict that animate their history-making. "Afterlives of War is a study of the generations in Britain, Germany and Australia who were born after the First World War and lived in its shadow. These people experienced the effects of the global cataclysm in their homes as young children before they ever knew the conflict as History. Yet because they were not direct witnesses, and their testimonies were ‘second hand’, the war’s impact on them was often hidden. Drawing on ninety interviews, observation of the First World War Centenary, and research on the First World War past in the author’s own family, this book documents the personal legacies of the conflict and the rich historical culture that descendants create. It investigates the letters, photographs, trench art and official records held in private archives; reconstructs the descendants’ relationships with members of the war generation; and reflects on how the history of war in the family shaped them as children and throughout their lives. The book describes the effort to piece together the war stories of parents and grandparents, and explores how this interacts with different national traditions of remembrance. Motivated by the experience of coming after, descendants have played a key role in the cultural memory of the First World War since 1918."-- Back cover.


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Watching, Waiting : The Photographic Representation of Empty Places
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ISBN: 9461665199 9789461665195 9789461665201 9461665202 9462703752 9789462703759 Year: 2023 Publisher: [s.l.] : Universitaire Pers Leuven,

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First study on empty places in photography and the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the aftermath of Covid-19, the subject of 'empty places' has gained renewed topicality and resonance. Watching, Waiting presents a collection of essays that brings emptiness into interdisciplinary focus as an object of study that extends beyond the present. The contributors approach the specific interrelationships of photography and place through emptiness by considering historical and contemporary material in equal measure. Drawing on architecture, anthropology, sociology, and public health, among other fields, they provide insights into geographically and temporally diverse production models of empty places and their corresponding complex and sensitive global and local relations, while also tackling the ethics of behaviour and protests that unfold within them. The book's chapters, both photographic and scholarly essays, cover areas that range widely both thematically and geographically, spanning static film footage of Nicosia's Buffer Zone, protest photographs in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement in Bristol, staged images from the University of Zagreb's ethnological archives, historic landscape and architectural photography, aerial shots of Covid-19 mass graves in Brazil, photos of artificially built field hospitals and quarantine rooms during the pandemic, and images of empty airports at night. Through still and moving images, Watching, Waiting examines the photographic aestheticisation of emptiness, existing stereotypes of 'empty places', and transformations of human experiences.Contributors: Ruth Baumeister (Aarhus School of Architecture), Isabelle Catucci da Silva (Federal University of Paraná), Stella Fatović-Ferenčić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Martin Kuhar (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Catlin Langford (Centre for Contemporary Photography), Jessie Martin (University of West London), Stuart Moore (University of the West of England), Luca Nostri (Independent Artist Photographer), Kayla Parker (University of Plymouth), Bec Rengel (University of the West of England), Tihana Rubić (University of Zagreb), Klaudija Sabo (University of Klagenfurt), Anna Schober (University of Klagenfurt), Elke Katharina Wittich (Leibniz University Hannover)Ebook available in Open Access.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Life exposed
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ISBN: 9780691090191 0691090181 069109019X 0691151660 1400845092 1299387861 9781400845095 9780691151663 9781299387867 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Woodstock Princeton University Press

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On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed political, scientific, and social circumstances that followed the disaster. Tracing the story from an initial lack of disclosure to post-Soviet democratizing attempts to compensate sufferers, Adriana Petryna uses anthropological tools to take us into a world whose social realities are far more immediate and stark than those described by policymakers and scientists. She asks: What happens to politics when state officials fail to inform their fellow citizens of real threats to life? What are the moral and political consequences of remedies available in the wake of technological disasters? Through extensive research in state institutions, clinics, laboratories, and with affected families and workers of the so-called Zone, Petryna illustrates how the event and its aftermath have not only shaped the course of an independent nation but have made health a negotiated realm of entitlement. She tracks the emergence of a "biological citizenship" in which assaults on health become the coinage through which sufferers stake claims for biomedical resources, social equity, and human rights. Life Exposed provides an anthropological framework for understanding the politics of emergent democracies, the nature of citizenship claims, and everyday forms of survival as they are interwoven with the profound changes that accompanied the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl', Ukraine, 1986 --- Radioactive pollution --- Tchernobyl, Accident nucléaire de, Ukraine, 1986 --- Accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl, Tchernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 --- Pollution radioactive --- Health aspects --- Aspect sanitaire --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A72 --- #SBIB:328H263 --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Europa --- Instellingen en beleid: andere GOS-staten --- Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 --- Environmental radioactivity --- Nuclear pollution --- Radioactivity, Environmental --- Pollution --- Radioactive substances --- Radioecology --- Radioactive waste disposal --- Health aspects. --- Environmental aspects. --- Tchernobyl, Accident nucléaire de, Ukraine, 1986 --- Accident nucléaire de Tchernobyl, Tchernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- Social aspects. --- Chernobyl aftermath. --- Chernobyl disaster. --- Chernobyl explosion. --- Chernobyl nuclear reactor. --- Chernobyl sufferers. --- Exclusion Zone. --- Radiation Research Center. --- Safe Living Concept. --- Soviet Union. --- Ukraine. --- accountability. --- biological citizenship. --- biological injury. --- bioscientific collaboration. --- catastrophe. --- clinicians. --- compensation. --- corruption. --- disability claims. --- disability. --- doctorаatient relations. --- environment. --- ethics. --- families. --- family histories. --- health. --- human rights. --- human welfare. --- illness. --- in utero research. --- lichnost'. --- life narratives. --- medical classification. --- medical surveillance. --- medical-labor committees. --- nonsufferers. --- nuclear hazard. --- patients. --- personhood. --- post-Soviet Ukraine. --- public health. --- radiation dose exposure. --- radiation research. --- radiation scientists. --- radiation. --- radioactive fallout. --- self. --- sick role sociality. --- social equity. --- social health. --- social identity. --- social protection. --- social welfare goods. --- state building. --- sufferers. --- suffering. --- technological disasters. --- violence. --- welfare claims.

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