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Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday
lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and
theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally
situated scenes of sociality and intimacy. Because intimacy has
often been taken for granted as the foundation of trust relations,
the ethnographies presented here challenge us to think about
dangerous intimacies, marked by mistrust, as well as forms of trust
that cohere through non-intimate forms of sociality.
Despite its immense significance and ubiquity in our everyday
lives, the complex workings of trust are poorly understood and
theorized. This volume explores trust and mistrust amidst locally
situated scenes of sociality and intimacy. Because intimacy has
often been taken for granted as the foundation of trust relations,
the ethnographies presented here challenge us to think about
dangerous intimacies, marked by mistrust, as well as forms of trust
that cohere through non-intimate forms of sociality.
Modernization in Africa has created new problems as well as new
freedoms. Multiparty democracy, resource privatization and changing
wealth relationships, have not always created stable and prosperous
communities, and violence continues to be endemic in many areas of
African life - from civil war and political strife to violent
clashes between genders, generations, classes and ethnic groups.
Violence and Belonging explores the crucial formative role of
violence in shaping people's ideas of who they are in uncertain
postcolonial contexts where, as resources dwindle and wealth is
contested, identities and ideas of belonging become a focal area of
conflict and negotiation. Focusing on fieldwork from across the
continent, its case studies consider how routine everyday violence
ties in with wider regional and political upheavals, and how
individuals experience and legitimize violence in its different
forms. The Zimbabwean and Sudanese civil wars, Kenyan Kikuyu
domestic conflicts, Rwandan massacres and South African Truth and
Reconciliation processes, are among the contexts explored.
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 engages whether the
term's dual plasticity and endurance captures, encompasses or
challenges legacies and imprints of multiple forms of violence.
Modernisation in Africa has created new problems as well as new
freedoms. Multiparty democracy, resource privatization and changing
wealth relationships, have not always created stable and prosperous
communities, and violence continues to be endemic in many areas of
African life - from civil war and political strife to violent
clashes between genders, generations, classes and ethnic groups.
"Violence and Belonging "explores the crucial formative role of
violence in shaping people's ideas of who they are in uncertain
postcolonial contexts where, as resources dwindle and wealth is
contested, identities and ideas of belonging become a focal area of
conflict and negotiation. Focusing on fieldwork from across the
continent, its case studies consider how routine everyday violence
ties in with wider regional and political upheavals, and how
individuals experience and legitimize violence in its different
forms. The Zimbabwean and Sudanese civil wars, Kenyan Kikuyu
domestic conflicts, Rwandan massacres and South African Truth and
Reconciliation processes, are among the contexts explored.
This volume, the first comprehensive overview of Scandinavian
cross-cultural research on gender issues in the English language,
addresses fundamental analytical issues currently debated within
international feminist anthropology and beyond. Offering examples
from a wide range of ethnographic settings, the essays show that
gender comprises far more than sexual relationships: it takes on
political significance insofar as it influences the distribution of
resources and access to public and domestic spheres, to knowledge
and to power.
This volume, the first comprehensive overview of Scandinavian
cross-cultural research on gender issues in the English language,
addresses fundamental analytical issues currently debated within
international feminist anthropology and beyond. Offering examples
from a wide range of ethnographic settings, the essays show that
gender comprises far more than sexual relationships: it takes on
political significance insofar as it influences the distribution of
resources and access to public and domestic spheres, to knowledge
and to power.
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 engages whether the
term's dual plasticity and endurance captures, encompasses or
challenges legacies and imprints of multiple forms of violence.
Development donors have supported thousands of environmental
initiatives in Africa over the past quarter century. The
contributors to this provocative new collection of essays assess
these projects and conclude that environmental programmes
constitute one of the major forms of foreign and state intervention
in contemporary African affairs. Drawing on case study material
from eight countries, the authors demonstrate clearly that
environmental programmes themselves often have direct and
far-reaching consequences for the distribution of wealth and
poverty on the continent.Individual essays in the collection
theorise specific forms of environmental intervention; the degree
of historical discontinuity that exists between contemporary and
past environmental policies and practices; the effect environmental
programmes have had on localised systems of knowledge and value
regimes; the strategies of accumulation that have been spun out of
heavy donor and state investment in environmental programmes; and
the numerous social, cultural and political-economic dislocations
these initiatives have produced in African environments all across
the continent.
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