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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.
The book Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding offers a
template for those dealing with the aftermath of armed conflict to
look at peacebuilding through a psychosocial lens. This Volume, and
the case studies that are in it, starts from the premise that
armed conflict and the political violence that flows from it, are
deeply contextual and that in dealing with the impact of armed
conflict, context matters. The book argues for a conceptual shift,
in which psychosocial practices are not merely about treating
individuals and groups with context and culturally sensitive
methods and approaches: the contributors argue that such
interventions and practices should in themselves shape social
change. This is of critical importance because the
psychosocial method continually highlights how the social context
is one of the primary causes of individual psychological distress.
The chapters in this book describe experiences within very
different contexts, including Guatemala, Jerusalem, Indian Kashmir,
Mozambique, Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka. The
common thread between the case studies is that they each show how
psychosocial interventions and practices can influence the
peacebuilding environment and foster wider social
change. Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding is
essential reading for social and peace psychologists, as well as
for students and researchers in the field of conflict and peace
studies, and for psychosocial practitioners and those working in
post-conflict areas for NGO’s.
The book Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding offers a
template for those dealing with the aftermath of armed conflict to
look at peacebuilding through a psychosocial lens. This Volume, and
the case studies that are in it, starts from the premise that armed
conflict and the political violence that flows from it, are deeply
contextual and that in dealing with the impact of armed conflict,
context matters. The book argues for a conceptual shift, in which
psychosocial practices are not merely about treating individuals
and groups with context and culturally sensitive methods and
approaches: the contributors argue that such interventions and
practices should in themselves shape social change. This is of
critical importance because the psychosocial method continually
highlights how the social context is one of the primary causes of
individual psychological distress. The chapters in this book
describe experiences within very different contexts, including
Guatemala, Jerusalem, Indian Kashmir, Mozambique, Northern Ireland,
South Africa and Sri Lanka. The common thread between the case
studies is that they each show how psychosocial interventions and
practices can influence the peacebuilding environment and foster
wider social change. Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding is
essential reading for social and peace psychologists, as well as
for students and researchers in the field of conflict and peace
studies, and for psychosocial practitioners and those working in
post-conflict areas for NGO's.
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.
Paraphrasing Descartes, we may say that one method is to take the
reader into your conf idence by explaining to him how you arrived
at your discovery; the other is to bully him into accepting a
conclusion by parading a series of propositions which he must
accept and which lead to it. The first method allows the reader to
re-think your own thoughts in their natural order. It is an
autobiographical style. Writing in this style, you include, not
what you had for breakfast on the day of your discovery, but any
significant consideration which helped you arrive at your idea. In
particular, you say what your aim was - what problems you were
trying to solve and what you hoped from a solution of them. The
other style suppresses all this. It is didactic and intimidating.
J. W. N. Watkins, Confession is Good for Ideas (Watkins, 1963, pp.
667-668) I began writing this book over 12 years ago. It was
started in the midst of the South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission (TRC). It is an exploration of what I have learned from
the process. During the TRC, I was working at the Centre for the
Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) in South Africa,
primarily with people who testified before the Commission, but also
on a range of research and policy initiatives in the area that is
now called 'transitional justice'. I have written about the TRC
process extensively.
Paraphrasing Descartes, we may say that one method is to take the
reader into your conf idence by explaining to him how you arrived
at your discovery; the other is to bully him into accepting a
conclusion by parading a series of propositions which he must
accept and which lead to it. The first method allows the reader to
re-think your own thoughts in their natural order. It is an
autobiographical style. Writing in this style, you include, not
what you had for breakfast on the day of your discovery, but any
significant consideration which helped you arrive at your idea. In
particular, you say what your aim was - what problems you were
trying to solve and what you hoped from a solution of them. The
other style suppresses all this. It is didactic and intimidating.
J. W. N. Watkins, Confession is Good for Ideas (Watkins, 1963, pp.
667-668) I began writing this book over 12 years ago. It was
started in the midst of the South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission (TRC). It is an exploration of what I have learned from
the process. During the TRC, I was working at the Centre for the
Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) in South Africa,
primarily with people who testified before the Commission, but also
on a range of research and policy initiatives in the area that is
now called 'transitional justice'. I have written about the TRC
process extensively.
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