Wounded Healers

ISBN-13: 9783639165043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 276 str.

Bryan Mar Urbsaitis

Opis

How do NGOs understandings of reconciliation differfrom those of their clients within a larger projectof national healing? How do staff at these NGOsbalance remembering the past with nation-building andinternational development when they may be victimsthemselves? Why do certain groups andindividuals continue to feel marginalized so longafter liberation? And how might NGOs in South Africaconstitute a reconciliation social movement? WoundedHealers argues that while South Africans have beenreconciling apartheid-era abuses since 1994, ongoingreconciliation struggles of individuals must not beoverlooked within the larger quest for nationalhealing. Focusing on memorialization, missingpersons, 30,000R reparation payouts, as well as onthe continued oppression of marginalized identitybased on culture, race, class, gender, sexualorientation, and HIV and AIDS, this ethnographicanalysis will appeal to all those interested inpost-conflict democratization, NGOs, internationaldevelopment, non-Western communication, conflict &peace-building, communication education, ethnography,cultural anthropology, activism, Africa, and anyoneinterested in global social justice.

O autorze

received his PhD from New York University and teaches
Communication at the City University of New York. He is an
International Conflict & Communication Consultant, Ethnographer,
and Scholar with an eye and ear for social justice issues.
Quadrilingual and both a Cyclist and Founder of Aids Ride South
Africa, find him at bryanurbs.com/urbsblog.