Description: Words and Wounds : Narratives of Exile, Hardcover by Akerman, Sean, ISBN 0190851716, ISBN-13 9780190851712, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In this study of exile, Sean Akerman chronicles the ways in which narrative approaches provide opportunities to understand and represent the lives of those who have been displaced after violence. Drawing on fieldwork he conducted with Tibetan exiles in New York City, and supplemented with
archival research from other exiles around the world, Akerman investigates how narrative approaches can reveal what its like to embody historical tensions, how identity becomes contested within displaced groups, and how personal stories can impact political realities.
Th also engages with the ethics of research practices more generally. How does a researcher write in a way that does justice to displaced lives while working within a scientific framework? What sort of ethics are at stake as one spends long hours interviewing an informant, and then interprets
that persons stories? The exploration of narrative approaches then becomes a way to imagine new possibilities of representation and call attention to the limitations and power dynamics within the discipline of psychology.
In light of massive upheavals and displacements all over the world, Words and Wounds provides a timely consideration of how to understand and chronicle one of the most pressing issues of this age.
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Book Title: Words and Wounds : Narratives of Exile
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Words and Wounds : Narratives of Exile
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: General, Semiotics & Theory, Political, Social Psychology
Item Weight: 14.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Author: Sean Akerman
Item Width: 6.4 in
Series: Explorations in Narrative Psychology Ser.
Format: Hardcover
