Sandra Teresa Hyde & Sarah Pinto 
Postcolonial Disorders [PDF ebook] 

The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday 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 programs in China and the Republic of Congo, psychiatrists and the mentally ill in Morocco and Ireland, and persons who have suffered trauma or been displaced by violence in the Middle East and in South and Southeast Asia.


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Acknowledgments

Postcolonial Disorders: Reflections on Subjectivity in the Contemporary World

Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, and Sarah Pinto


PART I: DISORDERED STATES

1. Madness and the Politically Real: Reflections on Violence in Postdictatorial Spain

Begoña Aretxaga

2. Indonesia Sakit: Indonesian Disorders and the Subjective Experience and Interpretive Politics of Contemporary Indonesian Artists

Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good and Byron J. Good

3. The Political Dimensions of Emasculation: Fantasy, Conspiracy, and Estrangement among Populist Leaders in Post-New Order Lombok, Indonesia

John M. Mac Dougall

4. Haunting Ghosts: Madness, Gender, and Ensekirite in Haiti in the Democratic Era

Erica Caple James

5. Laboratory of Intervention: The Humanitarian Governance of the Postcommunist Balkan Territories

Mariella Pandolfi


PART II: SUBJECTIVITY IN THE BORDERLANDS

6. Everyday AIDS Practices: Contestations of Borders and Infectious Disease in Southwest China

Sandra Teresa Hyde

7. Of Maids and Prostitutes: Indonesian Female Migrants in the New Asian Hinterlands

Johan Lindquist

8. Ambivalent Inquiry: Dilemmas of AIDS in the Republic of Congo

David Eaton

9. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable, II: Caught in the Borderlands of Palestine/Israel

Michael M.J. Fischer


PART III: MADNESS, ALTERITY, AND PSYCHIATRY

10. The Mucker War: A History of Violence and Silence

João Biehl

11. Institutional Persons and Personal Institutions: The Asylum and Marginality in Rural Ireland

A. Jamie Saris

12. The Knot of the Soul: Postcolonial Conundrums, Madness, and the Imagination

Stefania Pandolfo

13. Consuming Grief: Infant Death in the Postcolonial Time of Intervention

Sarah Pinto

14. Postcoloniality as the Aftermath of Terror among Vietnamese Refugees

Janis H. Jenkins and Michael Hollifield

15. Cross-Cultural Psychiatry in Medical-Legal Documentation of Suffering: Human Rights Abuses Involving Transnational Corporations and the Yadana Pipeline Project in Burma

Kathleen Allden


Contributors

Index

Mengenai Pengarang

Mary-Jo Del Vecchio Good is Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard University and author of many publications, including American Medicine: The Quest for Competence (UC Press) and coeditor of Pain as Human Experience (UC Press). Sandra Teresa Hyde is Associate Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Social Studies of Medicine, Mc Gill University, and the author of Eating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China (UC Press). Sarah Pinto is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University and author of Where There is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India. Byron Good is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University, author of Medicine, Rationality and Experience, and coeditor of Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations (UC Press), among other books.