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Trauma, memory, and transformation : Southeast Asian experiences

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Call no.
: 959/SHA
Author
: Sharon A. Bong
Contributor
: Henry Leo Lee Kuang
Summary
Different forms of trauma affect many millions of people. Trauma also helps to shape individual and collective memories.
This multidisciplinary edited volumed is an unique contributions to the field on two counts. First it addresses an under researched area - trauma and memory studies in the context of Southeast Asia.

This innovative book explores how traumatic occurrences and processes are remembered. Using examples from well-known events like the Khmer Rouge genocide in Embracing history, ethnography, textual analysis, storytelling and art, the multidisciplinary perspective enables a deeper understanding of both traumatic stress and the structures of memory.
The seven chapters offer ethnographic, qualitative and textual methodologies of the lived experiences of traumatic by survivors of violence in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.
Rewriting trauma and memory into Southeast Asian History ; making sense of a colonial past/postcolonial present, involving among other subjectivities, Filipina “comfort women” framed by the concept of art as a process and methodology for healing; experience justice a the extraordinary chambers in the courts of Cambodia on the Khmer Rouge atrocities; surviving civil conflict and the 204 tsunami by Acehnese people; overcoming ethno religious tensions and conflict among children in Southern Thailand storytelling; fashioning a politics of identity by Indian Malaysian University students in the face of discourses of racism and the containing of trauma and reconstruction of national memory following the Allah controversy between and Muslim communities in Malaysia.
Trauma, Memory and Transformation also moves the discussion of traumatic memory away from paralysis and towards transformative action, in the ways that memories of catastrophe can be reimagined as forms of resistance or even peace.
This original book will be essential reading for all those interested in the study of memory in the Southeast Asian context.