Narrating trauma and reconstruction in post-conflict Karachi: Feminist liberation psychology and the contours of agency in the margins

Feminism and Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 298-312

  Chaudhry, Lubna Nazir ^a   Bertram, Corrine ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Conflict; Karachi; Liberation psychology; Transnational feminism; Trauma; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549135854     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: 14617161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959353509105621     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Abu-Lughod, L. (1990) The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedoiun Women, American Ethnologist 17(1): 41-55.
2. Amnesty International (1996) Pakistan: Human Rights in Karachi, accessed 1 October 2003. Available: http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/pakistan/documents.do
3. Beneria, L. (2003) Gender, Development, and Globalization: Economics as if People Mattered. New York: Routledge.
4. Chaudhry, L.N. (2004) Reconstituting Selves in the Karachi Conflict: Mohajir Women Survivors and Structural Violence, Cultural Dynamics 16(2/3): 259-89.
5. Chaudhry, L.N. (2006) On Theorizing/Writing/Representing Women in Contexts of Conflict in Pakistan: The Promise and Perils of "Global Feminism", paper presented at the Sustainable Development Conference, 13-15 December, Islamabad, Pakistan.
6. Comas-Diaz, L., Lykes, M.B. and Alarcon, R.D. (1998) Ethnic Conflict and the Psychology of Liberation in Guatemala, Peru, and Puerto Rico, American Psychologist 53(7): 778- 92.
7. Das, V. (1998) Specificities: Official Narratives, Rumor, and the Social Production of Hate, Social Identities 4(1): 109-30.
8. Das, V. and Kleinman, A. (2000) Introduction, in V. Das, A. Kleinman, M. Ramphele, and P. Reynolds (eds) Violence and Subjectivity, pp. 1-18. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
9. de Mel, N. (2002) Fractured Narratives: Notes on Women in Conflict in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Development 45(1): 99-104.
10. Foster, D. (2004) Liberation Psychology, in D. Hook (ed.) Critical Psychology, pp. 559- 602. Cape Town, South Africa: UCT Press.
11. Gardezi, H.N. (2005) Globalization and Pakistan's Dilemma of Development, paper presented at the 20th meeting of the Pakistan Society of Development Economics, 10-12 January, Islamabad, Pakistan.
12. Government of Pakistan (1998) Population Census Report. Islamabad: National Statistics Bureau.
13. Grewal, I. and Kaplan, C. (eds) (1994) Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
14. Haroon, A. (2001) "They Use Us and Others Abuse Us": Women and the MQM Conflict, in R. Manchanda (ed.) Women, War and Peace in South Asia: Beyond Victimhood to Agency, pp. 177-213. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
15. Hasan, A. (1999) Understanding Karachi: Planning and Reform for the Future. Karachi: City Press.
16. Hassett, J.J. and Lacey, H. (1991) Towards a Society that Serves its People: The Intellectual Contribution of El Salvador's Murdered Jesuits. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
17. Katz, C. (2001) On the Grounds of Globalization: A Topography for Feminist Political Engagement, Signs 26(4): 1213-34.
18. Khattak, S.G. (2002) Subcontracted Work and Gender Relations: The Case of Pakistan, in R. Balakrishnan (ed.) The Hidden Assembly Line: Gender Dynamics of Subcontracted Work in a Global Economy, pp. 35-62. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press.
19. Lykes, M.B. (1993) "Children in the Storm": Psychosocial Trauma in Latin America, in M. Agosin (ed.) Surviving Beyond Fear: Women, Children, and Human Rights in Latin America, pp. 152-61. Buffalo, NY: White Pine Press.
20. Madariaga, C. (2000) Psychosocial Trauma, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Torture, paper presented at the first Latin American and Caribbean Seminar on Models to Work with People Who have Suffered Torture and Human Right Violations, 1 April, Antigua, Guatemala.
21. Manchanda, M. (ed.) (2001) Women, War and Peace in South Asia: Beyond Victimhood to Agency. New Delhi: Sage.
22. Martín-Baró, I. (1994) Writings for a Liberation Psychology, A. Aron and S. Corne (eds). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
23. Moane, G. (2003) Bridging the Personal and the Political: Practices for a Liberation Psychology, American Journal of Community Psychology 31(1/2): 91-101.
24. Moane, G. (2006) Exploring Activism and Change: Feminist Psychology, Liberation Psychology, Political Psychology, Feminism & Psychology 16(1): 73-8.
25. Nordstrom, C. (1997) A Different Kind of War Story. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
26. Riessman, C.K. (1993) Narrative Analysis. London: Sage.
27. Sdpi (2001) Archive on Women, Conflict, and Security. Islamabad: Sustainable Development Policy Institute.
28. Shaikh, N. (1997) Migrant Nation: Ethnicity and Ethnic Violence among the Mohajirs of Karachi, unpublished M. Phil. dissertation, Cambridge University.
29. Strauss, A.L. (1987) Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
30. Tambiah, S.J. (1997) Friends, Neighbors, Enemies, Strangers: Aggressor and Victim in Civilian Ethnic Riots, Social Science & Medicine 45(8): 1177-88.
31. Verkaaik, O. (2004) Migrants and Militants: Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
32. Yuval-Davis, N. (1997) Gender and Nation. London: Sage.