By Hannah Bradby
Rendering the ache of the marginalized seen has been an incredible element of feminist sociological stories of well-being, affliction and drugs, with the subjective event of these with out entry to institutional strength being on the leading edge of the learn. This quantity analyzes the hyperlinks among the affliction brought on by the intentional violence of struggle and the accidental soreness engendered through smooth medicinal procedures. via developing a becoming tribute to the tutorial and campaigning paintings of Meg Stacey, international views on conflict, Gender and healthiness responds to her problem of ’why scientific sociology had no longer but became its gaze upon the wellbeing and fitness results of war’. a variety of foreign case stories are used to create a quantity of important curiosity to sociologists and people operating within the fields of anthropology, social coverage, social paintings, peace, conflict and defense reports, and foreign improvement.
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And Marcus, G. 1986. Writing Culture Berkeley. Berkeley: University of California Press. Dossa, P. 2003. The Body Remembers: A migratory tale of social suffering. International Journal of Mental Health, 32(3), 50–73. Introduction 15 Farmer, P. 2004. An Anthropology of Structural Violence. Current Anthropology, 45(3), 305–24. Frank, A. 1995. The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness and Ethics. Chicago: Chicago University Press. Giacaman, R. et al. 2007. Quality of Life in the Palestinian Context: An inquiry in war-like conditions.
2005. Suffering: A Sociological Introduction. Cambridge: Polity. Wilkinson, I. G. 2001. The Problem of Suffering and the Sociological Task of Theodicy. European Journal of Social Theory, 4(2), 199–214. This page has been left blank intentionally Chapter 1 Feminist Antimilitarism: Scope, Problematic and Difficulties in a Potential Global Social Movement Cynthia Cockburn ‘Intended and unintended suffering’ is the theme that holds these chapters together. After torture, war-making is perhaps the clear-cut case of intended suffering.
Taking a worldwide perspective like this, it is logical to think of using a language of ‘global social movements’. It is a conceptual framing that is somehow inspiring, a feel-good thing. But how would you define or name our world-spanning movement of women activists against militarism, against war and for peace? The thing about movements is they have no boundaries, they are not structures but flows (Melucci 1996). They have no headquarters buildings, postal 22 Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health addresses, or formal representatives, so it is difficult to say with any authority that they exist.