Reviews for Globalization, Democracy And Development In Africa

The average rating for Globalization, Democracy And Development In Africa based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-07-21 00:00:00 David Lovan Green's work is fundamental to understanding the embodiment of violence. Our bodies are living testaments to our experiences and environments. Favorite quotes below: ___________________ - Illness represents a shift not only in one's experiences but also in one's experiences of oneself For many widows this has meant coming to terms with a new self, a self constructed through experiences of trauma and violence. - In this way the body is an oppositional space, a space of resistance. The resistance to which I refer is both passive and active. It is passive in that pain is individually felt, yet illness has also generated agency among the same women when animated in a group. The body bears witness to the violence perpetrated against not only individual women but the Mayan people, as their memories are sedimented into their bodies. As such, sensation and emotion are simultaneously experienced and Western notions of mind-body, subject-object dualisms break down. - Embodiment in this sense is neither a metaphor for social relations nor a text to be read but the actual contested terrain where human beings struggle.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-03-09 00:00:00 Xion Zeffir Dramatic and in-depth look at the Mayan widows of the Scorched Earth campaign of the early 1980s. Inspired somewhat by Nancy Scheper-Hughes "Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil." An anthropological account with a conscience, as it should be.