Editors:
- Considers how people manage and respond to their experiences of past and present violence on the individual level
- Covers a diverse group of people in Johannesburg including migrants, refugees, homeless people, sex workers and former soldiers from across the African continent
- Adds to the growing literature that critiques overly-medicalized models of trauma and healing
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Peace Psychology Book Series (PPBS, volume 24)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- Domestive Violence in South Africa
- Sex work in South Africa
- Zimbabwe refugees in South Africa
- child refugees in South Africa
- coping and healing from everyday violence
- gender equality in Johannesburg
- people's response to everyday violence
- post-apartheid South Africa
- psychological responses to stress
- transition to democracy in South Africa
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Witwatersrand African Centre for Migration and Society, Johannesburg, South Africa
Ingrid Palmary
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International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE), University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Brandon Hamber
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Sociology, University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Lorena Núñez
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Healing and Change in the City of Gold
Book Subtitle: Case Studies of Coping and Support in Johannesburg
Editors: Ingrid Palmary, Brandon Hamber, Lorena Núñez
Series Title: Peace Psychology Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08768-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08767-2Published: 05 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35383-8Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08768-9Published: 19 October 2014
Series ISSN: 2197-5779
Series E-ISSN: 2197-5787
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 187
Number of Illustrations: 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Community and Environmental Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Political Science