Name: Words and Wounds: Narratives of Exile (Explorations in Narrative Psychology)
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Author: Akerman, Sean
ISBN: 9780190851712

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Words and Wounds: Narratives of Exile (Explorations in Narrative Psychology)

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Physical Book

Author

Sean Akerman

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

English

Pages

200

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.6 x 16.0 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9780190851712

Synopsis "Words and Wounds: Narratives of Exile (Explorations in Narrative Psychology) "

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 it's like to embody historical tensions, how identity becomes contested within displaced groups, and how personal stories can impact political realities. The book 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 person's 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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