Healing and change in the city of gold [electronic resource] : case studies of coping and support in Johannesburg / Ingrid Palmary, Brandon Hamber, Lorena Núñez, editors.
2015
BF353 .H43 2015eb
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Title
Healing and change in the city of gold [electronic resource] : case studies of coping and support in Johannesburg / Ingrid Palmary, Brandon Hamber, Lorena Núñez, editors.
ISBN
9783319087689 electronic book
3319087681 electronic book
9783319087672
3319087681 electronic book
9783319087672
Published
Cham : Springer, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 187 pages) : color illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-08768-9 doi
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BF353 .H43 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
155.9
Summary
This volume offers radically new ways of thinking about precarious life in the city of Johannesburg. Using case studies as varied as Pentecostal and Zionist churches, brothels, shelters, political movements for change in Zimbabwe, ex-soldiers groups, counseling services and art projects, this volume grapples with the way its predominantly migrant residents navigate the opportunities, challenges, moral orders and relationships in this iconic and complex city. Taking seriously how context shapes meaning the authors use participatory and ethnographic techniques to understand people?s everyday responses to the violence, insecurity and possibilities for change that they face in contemporary Johannesburg. Read together, the case studies give us new insights into what it means to seek support, to cope and to heal, going beyond what mental health professionals traditionally consider support mechanisms or interventions for those in distress. They develop a notion of healing that sees it as a process and an outcome that is rooted in the world-view of those who live in the city. Throughout the chapters in this book is a sense of everyday insecurity alongside an equally strong sense of optimism, care and a striving for change. It is perhaps not surprising, then, that this book deals very centrally with themes of the struggle for progress, mobility (geographic, material and spiritual), and the sense of possibility and change associated with the City of Gold. Ultimately, the volume demonstrates that coping and healing are both a collective and individual achievement, as well as a economic, psychological, spiritual and material phenomenon shaped by context.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 7, 2014).
Series
Peace psychology book series ; 24.
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