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Postcolonial disorders

The contributors explore modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that shape the lives of Basque youth, Indonesian artists, members of nongovernmental HIV/AIDS programmes in China and Zaire, and psychiatrists and their patients in Morocco and Ireland
eBook, English, c2008
University of California Press, Berkeley, c2008
1 online resource (xii, 465 p.)
9780520941021, 9781281385666, 9781435653696, 9786611385668, 0520941020, 1281385662, 1435653696, 6611385665
1298206077
Postcolonial disorders : reflections on subjectivity in the contemporary world / Byron J. Good [and others]
Madness and the politically real : reflections on violence in postdictatorial Spain / Begoña Aretxaga
Indonesia Sakit : Indonesian disorders and the subjective experience and interpretive politics of contemporary Indonesian artists / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Byron J. Good
The political dimensions of emasculation : fantasy, conspiracy, and estrangement among populist leaders in post-new order Lombok, Indonesia / John M. McDougall
Haunting ghosts : madness, gender, and Ensekirite in Haiti in the democratic era / Erica Caple James
Laboratory of intervention : the humanitarian governance of the postcommunist Balkan territories / Mariella Pandolfi
Everyday AIDS practices : contestations of borders and infectious disease in southwest China / Sandra Teresa Hyde
Of maids and prostitutes : Indonesian female migrants in the new Asian hinterlands / Johan Lindquist
Ambivalent inquiry : dilemmas of AIDS in the Republic of Congo / David Eaton
To live with what would otherwise be unendurable, II : caught in the borderlands of Palestine/Israel / Michael M.J. Fischer
The Mucker War : a history of violence and silence / João Biehl
Institutional persons and personal institutions : the asylum and marginality in rural Ireland / A. Jamie Saris
The knot of the soul : postcolonial conundrums, madness, and the imagination / Stefania Pandolfo
Consuming grief : infant death in the postcolonial time of intervention / Sarah Pinto
Postcoloniality as the aftermath of terror among Vietnamese refugees / Janis H. Jenkins, Michael Hollifield
Cross-cultural psychiatry in medical-legal documentation of suffering : human rights abuses involving transnational corporations and Yadana Pipeline Project in Burma / Kathleen Allden
English