Mohajir women survivors in postcolonial Karachi: on grief
| Autor: | Lubna Nazir Chaudhry |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | South Asian History and Culture. 5:349-364 |
| ISSN: | 1947-2501 1947-2498 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19472498.2014.905328 |
| Popis: | This article explores Mohajir women’s experiences and constructions of grief in the face of losses incurred during the 1985–1999 phase of armed conflict in Karachi, Pakistan. Survivors’ testimonies of grief, and their attempts to manage that grief, become points of entry to an understanding of the impact and contours of multiple types of violence, including the structural violence, within which the lives of poor women especially are embedded. Memories, historical as well as more recent, and identities, remain imbricated in women’s narratives of grief as they mourn individual and familial losses along with more collective sites of disenfranchisement. The totalizing violence in their lives and lifeworlds is mirrored by their totalizing grief. For many Mohajir women, being trapped in refugee or immigrant mode represents a layer of this totalizing grief. Bereaved and poor Mohajir women can only find some solace amongst women in similar circumstances. Women above fifty, women in their thirties and forties, and... |
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