The humanitarian politics of testimony: Subjectification through Trauma in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Cultural Anthropology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 531-558

  Fassin, Didier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Humanitarianism; Palestine; Subjectification; Testimony; Trauma; Witness

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249163788     PISSN: 08867356     EISSN: 15481360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2008.00017.x     Document Type: Article

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