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Healing and Change in the City of Gold - Case Studies of Coping and Support in Johannesburg (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
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Healing and Change in the City of Gold - Case Studies of Coping and Support in Johannesburg (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Series: Peace Psychology Book Series, 24
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This volume collects case studies on the lives of people living in
post-apartheid Johannesburg, South Africa. In doing so, it
considers how people manage, respond to, narrate and/or silence
their experiences of past and present violence, multiple
insecurities and precarity in contexts where these experiences take
on an everyday continuous character. Taking seriously how context
shapes the meaning of violence, the forms of response, and the
consequences thereof, the contributing chapter authors use
participatory and ethnographic techniques to understand people's
everyday responses to the violence and insecurity they face in
contemporary Johannesburg. Each case study documents an example of
a strategy of coping and healing and reflects on how this strategy
shapes the theory and practice of violence prevention and response.
The case studies cover a diversity of groups of people in
Johannesburg including migrants, refugees, homeless people, sex
workers and former soldiers from across the African continent. Read
together, the case studies give us new insights into what it means
for these residents to seek support, to cope and to heal
challenging the boundaries of what psychologists traditionally
consider support mechanisms or interventions for those in distress.
They develop a notion of healing that sees it as a process and an
outcome that is rooted in the world-view of those who live in the
city. Alongside the people's sense of insecurity is an equally
strong sense of optimism, care and a striving for change. It is
perhaps not surprising, then, that this book deals very centrally
with themes of the struggle for progress, mobility (geographic,
material and spiritual), and a sense of possibility and change
associated with Johannesburg. Ultimately, the volume argues that
coping and healing is both a collective and individual achievement
as well as an economic, psychological and material phenomenon.
Overall this volume challenges the notion that people can and
should seek support primarily from professional, medicalized
psychological services and rather demonstrates how the particular
support needed is shaped by an understanding of the cause of
precarity.
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