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Violent Reverberations

Global Modalities of Trauma

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Editors:
  1. Vigdis Broch-Due

    1. Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, Norway

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  2. Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

    1. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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  • Probes truly global contexts of violence, trauma and memory beyond simplifying tropes of 'cultural difference'
  • Alerts readers to the generative and inventive nature of trauma beyond the postmodern/posthumanist deconstruction of the term
  • Takes down the authority of normative modernist constructions

Part of the book series: Culture, Mind, and Society (CMAS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Violent Reverberations: An Introduction to Our Trauma Scenarios

    • Vigdis Broch-Due, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
    Pages 1-21

  3. Trauma, Violence, Memory: Reflections on the Bodily, the Self, the Sign, and the Social

    • Vigdis Broch-Due
    Pages 23-58

  4. Universalizing Trauma Descendant Legacies: A Comparative Study of Jewish-Israeli and Cambodian Genocide Descendant Legacies

    • Carol A. Kidron
    Pages 59-89

  5. Social Trauma, National Mourning, and Collective Guilt in Post-Authoritarian Argentina

    • Antonius C. G. M. Robben
    Pages 91-115

  6. Organizing Norwegian Psychiatry: Security as a Colonizing Regime

    • Inger Lise Teig
    Pages 117-142

  7. Dis-assembling the Social: The Politics of Affective Violence in Memorandum Greece

    • Rania Astrinaki
    Pages 143-171

  8. Re-Assessing the Silent Treatment: Emotional Expression, Preventive Health, and the Care of Others and the Self

    • Maria Tapias
    Pages 173-191

  9. Multisemic Speech Genres as Vehicles for Re-inscribing Meaning in Post-conflict Societies: A Mozambican Case

    • Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
    Pages 193-217

  10. Violence, Fear, and Impunity in Post-War Guatemala

    • Margit Ystanes
    Pages 219-240

  11. Laughter Without Borders: Embodied Memory, and Pan-Humanism in a Post-Traumatic Age

    • Nicolas Argenti
    Pages 241-268

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 269-279
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About this book

The contributions to this volume map the surprisingly multifarious circumstances in which trauma is invoked – as an analytical tool, a therapeutic term or as a discursive trope. By doing so, we critically engage the far too often individuating aspects of trauma, as well as the assumption of a universal somatic that is globally applicable to contexts of human suffering. The volume takes the reader on a journey across widely differing terrains: from Norwegian institutions for psychiatric patients to the post-war emergence of speech genres on violence in Mozambique, from Greek and Cameroonian ritual and carnivalesque treatments of historical trauma to national discourses of political assassinations in Argentina, the volume provides an empirically founded anti-dote against claiming a universal ‘empire of trauma’ (Didier Fassin) or seeing the trauma as successfully defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Instead, the work critically evaluates and engageswhether the term’s dual plasticity and endurance captures, encompasses or challenges legacies and imprints of multiple forms of violence. 

Reviews

“These essays raise the bar for projects on trauma that insist on grounding theory in seriously ethnographic, historical, and contextual case studies. The book engages the best-known writers and research in the arena of trauma and affect studies, and will gather momentum and audience because it so carefully and coherently articulates critiques, complementary case studies, and forward-looking theory.” (Steven Feld, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, USA)

“Trauma, a doctrine with global reach, depends on thin descriptions to illustrate its universalizing analytical framework. Grounded in culture-specific particularities, this elegant volume dissects this condition, instead offering thick descriptions of silence, narrative, security, fear, difference, and ritual laughter.” (Sverker Finnström, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University, Sweden)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, Norway

    Vigdis Broch-Due

  • University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

About the editors

Vigdis Broch-Due is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen and Scientific Director at Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), Oslo, Norway. Her research in East-Africa spans 3 decades on the ethnography of poverty, gender and embodiment, cosmology, relations between animals, people and nature, pastoralist development, colonialism, violence and trust formation.



Bjørn Enge Bertelsen is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has researched issues such as state formation, violence, poverty and rural-urban connections in Mozambique since 1998 in addition to having had a long-standing interest in theory development within the discipline of anthropology. 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Violent Reverberations

  • Book Subtitle: Global Modalities of Trauma

  • Editors: Vigdis Broch-Due, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen

  • Series Title: Culture, Mind, and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39049-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39048-2Published: 11 November 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81804-7Published: 23 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39049-9Published: 03 November 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2637-6806

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-517X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 279

  • Topics: Social Anthropology, Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, History of Psychology

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