Violence and Subjectivity

by Das, Veena; Kleinman, Arthur; Ramphele, Mamphela; Reynolds, Pamela

• ISBN13: 9780520216082
• ISBN10: 0520216083
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

A collection of original essays that address the ways in which violence manifests itself on societal and interpersonal levels, analyzing how different kinds of violence are, and are not, interpreted on the world stage. By looking at hotspots of conflict, the contributors discuss the nature of violence in an age of worldwide "crisis management."

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(18)
Veena Das
Arthur Kleinman
Violence-Prone Area or International Transition? Adding the Role of Outsiders in Balkan Violence	19	(27)
Susan L. Woodward
Violence and Vision: The Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Terror	46	(33)
Allen Feldman
Circumcision, Body, Masculinity: The Ritual Wound and Collective Violence	79	(23)
Deepak Mehta
Teach Me How to Be a Man: An Exploration of the Definition of Masculinity	102	(18)
Mamphela Ramphele
On Not Becoming a ``Terrorist'': Problems of Memory, Agency, and Community in the Sri Lankan Conflict	120	(21)
Jonathan Spencer
The Ground of All Making: State Violence, the Family, and Political Activists	141	(30)
Pamela Reynolds
Violence, Suffering, Amman: The Work of Oracles in Sri Lanka's Eastern War Zone	171	(34)
Patricia Lawrence
The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Poisonous Knowledge, and Subjectivity	205	(21)
Veena Das
The Violences of Everyday Life: The Multiple Forms and Dynamics of Social Violence	226	(16)
Arthur Kleinman
Body and Space in a Time of Crisis: Sterilization and Resettlement during the Emergency in Delhi	242	(29)
Emma Tarlo
The Quest for Human Organs and the Violence of Zeal	271	(25)
Margaret Lock
Mayan Multiculturalism and the Violence of Memories	296	(19)
Kay B. Warren
Reconcilication and Memory in Postwar Nigeria	315	(18)
Murray Last
Mood, Moment, and Mind	333	(34)
E. Valentine Daniel
List of Contributors	367	(2)
Index	369