Trauma and Memory: Reading, Healing, and Making Law - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0804754055 ISBN 13 : 9780804754057

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Trauma and Memory explores different dimensions of trauma, both its relationship to the social sphere and to group identity, in order to open up new approaches to trauma from a healing perspective. The book's specific focus is doubly unique: first, because of its interest in the tension between collective and individual trauma (in trauma as socially constructed and related to identities of ethnicity, nationality, gender, and class); and second, because of its interest in the legal and medical professions (in their construction of trauma, their ways of treating it, their failures, and even their production of trauma). Trauma and Memory reflects the ways in which, over the last several decades, a growing interest in the social and cultural contexts of law and medicine has transformed the study of both these professions. The authors provide new readings of social and political phenomena--such as immigration, public health, gender discrimination, and transitional justice--in terms of trauma. Finally, they address the therapeutic dimensions of trauma and their relationship to reconciliation via alternative processes such as mediation, truth committees, and other new forms of justice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science and Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor at Amherst College. Nadav Davidovitch, MD, MPH, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Public Health, Ben Gurion University, Israel. Michal Alberstein, SJD, LLB, is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Bar Ilan University, Israel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804754055
• ISBN 13: 9780804754057
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Sarat Austin, Davidovitch Nadav, Alberstein Michal
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible