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Acknowledging trauma in a global context: narrative, memory and place
No full textIn this chapter, the editors situate the connection between sites of traumatic events and how they are remembered through narratives, whether that be in oral testimony, writing, film, or memory museums. The volume is in three parts. Part I focuses on spaces that highlight the nexus of politics and traumatic memory; Part II analyses real and imagined spaces of trauma that shape individual and collective memory; and Part III examines narrative forms such as film and journalism that memorialise trauma. Each of the chapters examines traumatic narrative within a different cultural context, together covering cases from around the globe. Across the volume, the central concern is the politics of trauma, that is, whose trauma can be visible, and to what end
Self-Stigma, Perceived Stigma, and Help-Seeking Communication in People with Mental Illness
No full textPeople with mental illness (PWMI) often internalise negative beliefs (self-stigma) or anticipate external sources of stigma (perceived stigma). This study examines how the two types of stigma affect the willingness to communicate for help – such communication is a vital aspect of good patient care and treatment outcome. Seventy-two participants from different ethnic backgrounds who had experienced mental illness responded to an online survey about their level of agreement with statements reflecting self- and perceived stigma and their willingness to disclose to various help sources. Face-to-face interviews with 17 of these respondents provided a deeper understanding of how stigma affected their help-seeking communication. The quantitative results seemed to suggest that self-stigma has a stronger negative correlation with willingness to seek help. Respondents preferred disclosing to friends above family members and health professionals. The results highlight the importance of building resilience to reduce self-stigma and thereby increase help seeking. Given the different ethnic backgrounds of the participants, there emerged some multicultural issues that would seem to contribute to persisting mental illness stigma. These and any cultural differences are discussed
‘He Called Me It.’ Perceived Discrimination in the Discourse of People Identifying as LGBTIQ in Australia
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‘She Said No Because I Talk Funny.’ Perceived Discrimination in the Discourse of Spanish-Speaking Immigrants in Australia
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No place to remember: haunting and the search for mass graves in Indonesia
No full textThere are thousands of mass graves across Indonesia which hold the remains of nearly one million people murdered during the anti-Communist purges of 1965–1966. During these purges, the Indonesia army and co-opted civilian militias captured and killed men, women, and children because of their suspected Communist sympathies, dumping their bodies into pits, caves, and rivers. Indonesia has never come to terms with these killings: these places are unmarked, and their dead cannot be mentioned. Yet the dead are not quiet: each of these mass graves is an open secret, and most of them are haunted. This chapter examines the search for these graves by two survivors, Pak Bedjo and Mas Aris, the consequences of bad death and the subsequent haunting of mass graves
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