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portada The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry Into the Condition of Victimhood
Type
Physical Book
Author
Translated by
Publisher
Year
2009
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
23.1 x 15.2 x 2.0 cm
Weight
0.43 kg.
ISBN
0691137536
ISBN13
9780691137537
Edition No.
1
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The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry Into the Condition of Victimhood

Richard Rechtman (Author) · Didier Fassin (Author) · Rachel Gomme (Translated by) · Princeton University Press · Paperback

The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry Into the Condition of Victimhood - Fassin, Didier ; Rechtman, Richard ; Gomme, Rachel

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Synopsis "The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry Into the Condition of Victimhood "

Today we are accustomed to psychiatrists being summoned to scenes of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, war, and other tragic events to care for the psychic trauma of victims--yet it has not always been so. The very idea of psychic trauma came into being only at the end of the nineteenth century and for a long time was treated with suspicion. The Empire of Trauma tells the story of how the traumatic victim became culturally and politically respectable, and how trauma itself became an unassailable moral category. Basing their analysis on a wide-ranging ethnography, Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman examine the politics of reparation, testimony, and proof made possible by the recognition of trauma. They study the application of psychiatric victimology to victims of the 1995 terrorist bombings in Paris and the 2001 industrial disaster in Toulouse; the involvement of humanitarian psychiatry with both Palestinians and Israelis during the second Intifada; and the application of the psychotraumatology of exile to asylum seekers victimized by persecution and torture. Revealing how trauma has come to authenticate the suffering of victims, The Empire of Trauma provides critical perspective on some of the moral and political issues at stake in the contemporary world.

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