Postcolonial Disorders

by Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio

• ISBN13: 9780520252233
• ISBN10: 0520252233
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-04
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Postcolonial Disorders: Reflections on Subjectivity in the Contemporary World	p. 1
Disordered States
Madness and the Politically Real: Reflections on Violence in Postdictatorial Spain	p. 43
Indonesia Sakit: Indonesian Disorders and the Subjective Experience and Interpretive Politics of Contemporary Indonesian Artists	p. 62
The Political Dimensions of Emasculation: Fantasy, Conspiracy, and Estrangement among Populist Leaders in Post-New Order Lombok, Indonesia	p. 109
Haunting Ghosts: Madness, Gender, and Ensekirite in Haiti in the Democratic Era	p. 132
Laboratory of Intervention: The Humanitarian Governance of the Postcommunist Balkan Territories	p. 157
Subjectivity in the Borderlands
Everyday AIDS Practices: Contestations of Borders and Infectious Disease in Southwest China	p. 189
Of Maids and Prostitutes: Indonesian Female Migrants in the New Asian Hinterlands	p. 218
Ambivalent Inquiry: Dilemmas of AIDS in the Republic of Congo	p. 238
To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable, II: Caught in the Borderlands of Palestine/Israel	p. 260
Madness, Alterity, and Psychiatry
The Mucker War: A History of Violence and Silence	p. 279
Institutional Persons and Personal Institutions: The Asylum and Marginality in Rural Ireland	p. 309
The Knot of the Soul: Postcolonial Conundrums, Madness, and the Imagination	p. 329
Consuming Grief: Infant Death in the Postcolonial Time of Intervention	p. 359
Postcoloniality as the Aftermath of Terror among Vietnamese Refugees	p. 378
Cross-Cultural Psychiatry in Medical-Legal Documentation of Suffering: Human Rights Abuses Involving Transnational Corporations and the Yadana Pipeline Project in Burma	p. 397
Contributors	p. 419
Index	p. 425
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