scholarly journals Writing in Exile: Bidoon Resistance and Speaking Truth to Power

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-164
Author(s):  
Areej Alshammiry
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Immigrant Experiences ◽  
Speaking Truth To Power

This article concentrates on the writings of the late Naser Al-Zafiri who documented the realities of the Bidoon community’s experiences in Kuwait and the diaspora. In his novels, through the detailed portrayals of the characters and their stories, Zafiri explicates lived experiences of belonging and homelessness of the Bidoon in Kuwait, as well as their immigrant experiences and encounters in Canada and other countries. By illustrating the pedagogical and political significance of Zafiri’s novels, and situating it in relation to other resistance work, the article contributes to our understanding of truth-telling, resistance, resiliency and survival of the Bidoons in Kuwait and in the diaspora.

En(countering) Silence – Some Thoughts on Historical Justice after Memoricide

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fanie du Toit
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Mass Violence ◽  
Social Consensus ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commissions ◽  
Historical Justice ◽  
Post War

AbstractThis essay argues that public historians and transitional justice experts need one another’s input in at least two crucial tasks facing nations after episodes of mass violence. In challenging the silence that typically envelopes post-war situations, the faithful recording of lived experiences of victims after violence is both a necessity and exceedingly complex. Here, oral history initiatives can significantly assist forensic investigations to develop a fuller picture of the suffering and crimes committed, but also to turn truth-telling into a healing experience for victims who often find forensic truth-telling on its own re-traumatizing. Conversely in efforts to memorialize wars, periods of oppression and struggles of liberation, public historians will do well to take seriously the testimonies of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and other truth-telling fora in order to ensure that any exclusionary narratives which may arise after the conflict are themselves disrupted, even as a social consensus is fostered on the need to realize all the necessary guarantees of non-recurrence to avoid a return to a bad past.

Enacting lived experiences: Peer specialists with criminal justice histories.

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey L. Barrenger ◽  
Emily K. Hamovitch ◽  
Melissa R. Rothman
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Peer Specialists

A qualitative analysis of transgender veterans’ lived experiences.

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica A. Chen ◽  
Hollie Granato ◽  
Jillian C. Shipherd ◽  
Tracy Simpson ◽  
Keren Lehavot
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Lived Experiences

Using African Truth and Reconciliation Commission documentation for truth telling and reconciliation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Proscovia Svärd
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commissions ◽  
Reconciliation Process

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (TRCs) are established to document violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in post-conflict societies. The intent is to excavate the truth to avoid political speculations and create an understanding of the nature of the conflict. The documentation hence results in a common narrative which aims to facilitate reconciliation to avoid regression to conflict. TRCs therefore do a tremendous job and create compound documentation that includes written statements, interviews, live public testimonies of witnesses and they also publish final reports based on the accumulated materials. At the end of their mission, TRCs recommend the optimal use of their documentation since it is of paramount importance to the reconciliation process. Despite this ambition, the TRCs’ documentation is often politicized and out of reach for the victims and the post-conflict societies at large. The TRCs’ documentation is instead poorly diffused into the post conflict societies and their findings are not effectively disseminated and used.

Weighing Ourselves Down

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Canonical Narratives

Bodyweight—the number on the scale—has been constructed as an objective measure of health, and weight loss as synonymous with healthier. Weight has been used as a way of classifying and controlling people, ignoring the embodied, relational, and cultural meanings attached to health and weight. Instead, these subjective experiences are lumped into a numerical category. Our society's obsession with weight is weighing us down and most of us should toss out our scales. Scale stories offer a departure from canonical narratives about physical health and body image by emphasizing emotions and lived experiences instead of bodyweight and numerical categories.

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