In Search of Return - Mourning the Disappearances in Kashmir

Shifa Haq traces the dynamics of mourning, collective trauma, and political resistance in personal accounts of mourners of disappeared persons, providing insights into psyche-polis connection. By using a psychoanalytic lens, this book turns to individual cases to throw light on claims of affect and memory to re-imagine social suffering.

List of contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1The Work of Mourning
2Disappearing Act
3Tracing Back, Moving Forward
4Bearing Witness, Imagining Disappearance
5The Shape of Mourning
Reference
Subject Index
About the Author

About the author

By Shifa Haq

Summary

Shifa Haq traces the dynamics of mourning, collective trauma, and political resistance in personal accounts of mourners of the disappeared persons, providing insights into psyche-polis connection. By using a psychoanalytic lens, this book turns to individual cases to throw light on claims of affect and memory to re-imagine social suffering.

Product details

• Authors: Shifa Haq
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781498582483
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8248-3
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts; Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinic
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology