Add to ORKGFassin and Rechtman’s aims are not to explore individual experiences of victimhood or trauma. Instead their concern is with the social and political impact of the concept of ‘trauma’ as an increasingly used resource for making sense of a wide range of suffering. Addressing a multi-disciplinary audience, and initially taking a historical perspective, they explore ‘how we have moved from a realm in which the symptoms of the wounded solder or the injured worker were deemed of doubtful legitimacy to one in which their suffering, no longer contested, testifies to an experience that excites sympathy and merits compensation
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As UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs from 2007 until 2010, John Holmes visited som...
This is a book review of Hard knocks: domestic violence and the psychology of storytelling by Janice...
The understanding of trauma in sociology as the group’s creation of meaning for horrific events has ...
Book review. Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman: The empire of trauma: an inquiry into the condition...
Trauma-Tragedy investigates the extent to which performance can represent the ‘unrepresentable’ of t...
[First para.]: "Psychological trauma can be defined, roughly, as the effect of an experience which t...
Review of Rockel, Stephen J. and Rick Halpern, eds. 2009. Inventing Collateral Damage: Civilian Casu...
Listening On The Edge presents excerpts from oral histories done after twelve world crises, followed...
As the notion of ‘collateral damage’ – or the unintentional yet foreseen killing of civilians in war...
In Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System, Alexander Betts and Paul Collier set out to offer s...
In Biopolitical Media: Catastrophe, Immunity and Bare Life, Allen Meek examines the development of m...
Review of The Splintered Glass: Facets of Trauma in the Post-Colony and Beyond edited by Dolores Her...
The exponential growth of research and clinical experience regarding posttraumatic stress disorder (...
The author reviewed Mika Haritos-Fatouros’s book The psychological origins of institutionalized tort...
The Unspeakable: Narratives of Trauma (henceforth, Unspeakable) is an edited collection of 14 papers...
As UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs from 2007 until 2010, John Holmes visited som...
This is a book review of Hard knocks: domestic violence and the psychology of storytelling by Janice...
The understanding of trauma in sociology as the group’s creation of meaning for horrific events has ...