Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War - Couverture rigide

Livre 51 sur 111: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Abramowitz, Sharon Alane

 
9780812246261: Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War
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ISBN 10 : 0812246268 ISBN 13 : 9780812246261
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014

Synopsis

At the end of Liberia's thirteen-year civil war, the devastated population struggled to rebuild their country and come to terms with their experiences of violence. During the first decade of postwar reconstruction, hundreds of humanitarian organizations created programs that were intended to heal trauma, prevent gendered violence, rehabilitate former soldiers, and provide psychosocial care to the transitioning populace. But the implementation of these programs was not always suited to the specific mental health needs of the population or easily reconciled with the broader aims of reconstruction and humanitarian peacekeeping, and psychiatric treatment was sometimes ignored or unevenly integrated into postconflict humanitarian health care delivery.

Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War explores the human experience of the massive apparatus of trauma-healing and psychosocial interventions during the first five years of postwar reconstruction. Sharon Alane Abramowitz draws on extensive fieldwork among the government officials, humanitarian leaders, and an often-overlooked population of Liberian NGO employees to examine the structure and impact of the mental health care interventions, in particular the ways they were promised to work with peacekeeping and reconstruction, and how the reach and effectiveness of these promises can be measured. From this courageous ethnography emerges a geography of trauma and the ways it shapes the lives of those who give and receive care in postwar Liberia.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sharon Alane Abramowitz teaches anthropology and African studies at the University of Florida.

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Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0812246268
ISBN 13 
9780812246261
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
280
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