From War to Work: Ethicality amidst Post-War Trauma?

2022 ◽  
pp. 124-142
Keyword(s):  
War Trauma ◽  
Post War

scholarly journals Postwar creations of strangers and estrangement: Notes on the ways to recovery and normalization

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 9-28
Author(s):  
Augustyn Bańka
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
War Trauma ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Post War ◽  
Critical Moments

Abstract This paper is an attempt at exploring the phenomenon of creation of strangers and estrangement as post-war trauma effects. It starts with an observation that post-war is a mental state manifesting itself in individuals as estrangement from themselves, environment, other people, and from the very meaning of life. The post-war trauma triggers a tendency for recovery and normalization of life, which, however, never ends. The paper focuses mainly on four aspects. Firstly, critical moments of the evolution of post-war periods in Europe are discussed, starting with the end of war until now. Secondly, the evolution of change in mental moral grammar in specific post-war periods is looked upon. Thirdly, paths to recovery and normalization through the creation of strangers and estrangement in consecutive, critical post-war periods are indicated. Lastly, this paper tries to present the paradoxes of all the periods of the post-war syndrome.

scholarly journals Youth mental health after civil war: The importance of daily stressors

2015 ◽  
Vol 206 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Newnham ◽  
Rebecca M. Pearson ◽  
Alan Stein ◽  
Theresa S. Betancourt
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Stress ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
War Trauma ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Daily Stressors ◽  
Sierra Leonean ◽  
Stress Symptoms ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Post War

BackgroundRecent evidence suggests that post-conflict stressors in addition to war trauma play an important role in the development of psychopathology.AimsTo investigate whether daily stressors mediate the association between war exposure and symptoms of posttraumatic stress and depression among war-affected youth.MethodStandardised assessments were conducted with 363 Sierra Leonean youth (26.7% female, mean age 20.9, s.d. = 3.38) 6 years post-war.ResultsThe extent of war exposures was significantly associated with post-traumatic stress symptoms (P<0.05) and a significant proportion was explained by indirect pathways through daily stressors (0.089, 95% CI 0.04–0.138, P<0.001). In contrast, there was little evidence for an association from war exposure to depression scores (P = 0.127); rather any association was explained via indirect pathways through daily stressors (0.103, 95% CI 0.048–0.158, P<0.001).ConclusionsAmong war-affected youth, the association between war exposure and psychological distress was largely mediated by daily stressors, which have potential for modification with evidence-based intervention.

Post-War Trauma and Postmodern Love

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-291
Author(s):  
Heidi Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Balance Sheet ◽  
War Trauma ◽  
Song Of Songs ◽  
Ralph Vaughan Williams ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Musical Settings ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
Post War ◽  
Vaughan Williams

What biblical critical insights might re-reading the Song of Songs through its contemporary musical afterlives produce? I propose that certain offbeat musical settings of the Song participate in the discursive composition of specifically postmodern versions of love (e.g. those of Berlant, Belsey, Illouz), and thereby disrupt the transmission of normalizing socio-romantic energies within what Lauren Berlant calls “the intimate public sphere.” In this intertextual case study, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ 1925Flos campi– a work usually praised for its harmonious reconciliation of sensual and spiritual musical moods and idioms – becomes a dystopic allegory of postmodern love. Gestating during WWI as Vaughan Williams served in France and Greece, then composed during a post-war decade of collective disenchantment with the Great War’s socio-political balance sheet,Flos campiconstitutes an ambivalent response to both the composer’s individual as well as a more collective experience of national post-war trauma. With help from Roland Boer’s Lacanian reading of the Song (2000), I locate this ambivalence in the composer’s enigmatic treatment of musical pastoralisms and modal-tonal harmonies as well as his expressive deployment of formal, motivic, and thematic repetition. The dissonant erotic semiotics that these techniques produce inFlos campican be enlisted today to challenge religio-rhetorical co-optations of the Song to bolster heteronormative institutions of love, sexuality, marriage and family by way of the Song’s supposedly timeless message that “Love Conquers All.” Correlatively, readingFlos campias a product of post-war trauma and an allegory of postmodern love invites biblical critics to hear the text’s pastoralisms with fresh “ears.”


scholarly journals The Journey to Death: Fictionalizing the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Khaled Hosseini’s Sea Prayer

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Abdul Samad Kadavan
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
War Trauma ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Syrian Refugee ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Memory And Trauma ◽  
Post War ◽  
Syrian Refugee Crisis

This paper explores the fictional representation of the Syrian refugee crisis in Khaled Hosseini's novel Sea Prayer (2018). The novel is considered a refugee narrative, examining the question of home, displacement, and the fateful journeys of the Syrian refugees. The novel depicts the heart-wrenching experiences of the refugee community in war-torn Syrian city Homs before and after the outbreak of the civil war in the country. Evoking the tragic death of Alan Kurdi, Hosseini vividly illustrates the various dimensions of the Syrian refugee crisis, including the outbreak of the civil war in Syria and the eventual birth of refugees, their homelessness/statelessness, perilous journey to escape the persecution, xenophobic attitudes towards them, and post-war trauma. This paper draws on postcolonial refugee narratives, concept of journeys of non-arrival, memory, and trauma studies to elucidate its argument. The contention here is that the current crisis in Syria is also accounted for by analyzing the fictional refugee narratives. The unspeakable trauma is communicated through fiction, and Hosseini’s novel depicts the dangers engulfed and the hope entrusted in the refugees’ journeys.

scholarly journals Metamorphosis of Aesthetic Visual Culture, an Aftermath of War

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-209
Author(s):  
Mamoona Khan
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
War Trauma ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Entire Visual Field ◽  
Post War ◽  
Humanitarian Values ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Impact

Creative brains are kept only by sensitive creatures, and the most empathetic are of those associated with visual arts fields, affected even by a minor stir in their surroundings, which is reflected in their creative endeavours. They sub consciously interpret their time. Unpleasantness of war or situations analogous to war have always left a negative mark on their aesthetic interpretations.  History is replete with such examples. But the most stunningly heinous transgressions were exercised by modern mechanisms of war that violated ethics par human perception. The era shattered beliefs of man on humanitarian values. It also caused transformation in the field of aesthetics which is beyond human comprehension. The metamorphosis was so rapid that it brought aesthetics and beauty at antithetical stages, which led the French artist Paul Duchamp to display a urinal as a piece of sculpture in an art exhibition. Hence, weirdness replaced beauty; logical delineations substituted the abstruse, and crafty ousted the artistic, still protected under the umbrella of art. It is labelled as modern, subjective or abstract but not viewed as a repercussion of war trauma. The paper will be exploratory research to probe reasons behind the apparently unreasoned transformations delineated through art. Modern art specimens of post-war era along with those resulted from a few chaotic situations will be analysed to draw conclusions. It will be based on deductive methods of reasoning to scrutinise history, psychology and the field of art in order to comprehend the impact and reactions of war trauma on sensitive souls of artists that led them to transform the entire visual field of aesthetics. 

scholarly journals ANTROPOLOGIE SOCIÁLNÍCH VZTAHŮ V SOUDOBÉM VIETNAMU

ACC Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-107
Author(s):  
Michal Schwarz
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
War Trauma ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Magical Thinking ◽  
Main Concept ◽  
Communication Situations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War ◽  
Personal Sacrifice

This review article presents a publication on ethnographic, linguistic, and social relations in the families that remained in Vietnam after the wars. Some family members still face post-war pressures and war trauma. Others face the social imperatives of caring for their elderly or sick relatives. Limitations in personal life are the main concept of the book reviewed which focuses on the role of the personal sacrifice. This is complemented by the social relations of love and care, the cult of ancestors and the demand for filial devotion. In Vietnamese families, these rules are fixed and are reflected in the linguistic means of communication (e.g., mother—child), which the author analyses from the linguistic point of view and documents it with the use of photographs of communication situations. The review points to alternative interpretations and cultural specifics of living traditions of magical thinking and polygamy.

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