Readings 1
This term was often used by journalists during the repressive New Order regime of Indonesian president Suharto to describe unrest and threats of violence by Indonesian crowds, particularly during political campaigns.
What is “amok”?
These are personal and public “representations” or stories
What is a narrative? (from article)
Prior to this article, it was difficult to find ways to study cross-cultural mental health without assigning “normality” in ways that were not offensive.
What is the article "Amuk in java: Madness and Violence in Indonesian Politics" by Byron J. Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
These two areas influence the formation of personal narratives, including the interpretation of one’s contexts, and the response to personal and collective traumas.
What are public and family narratives?
This framework looks at mental health issues that occurs in specific places, and has been helpful in helping in thinking through the fact that societies help to determine what is “normal” and that it varies very much by culture
What is “Culturally-bound syndrome”?
Public and Personal reminders
What are the two ways in which historical trauma reminders are divided?
This term is used to describe the convergences between military and humanitarian forms of intervention, and the role of international organizations as "operators of a new military-humanitarian form of governance"
What is the “humanitarian apparatus”?
The response adopted by governments, UN agencies, and international NGOs when confronted by the public's concern about a crisis.
What is the do something syndrome?
The phrase Maurice Godeliers coins about the withdrawal of the “gift” of humanitarian aid.
What is the tyranny of the gifts?
This term describes the phenomenon that emerged from the act of using trauma as an organizing trope which motivated new forms of technocratic practices (i.e. humanitarian apparatus) designed to manage the suffering of others and who supply the demands of consumers of performed suffering in the international.
What is “trauma brokerage” or “traumatic citizenship”?
These are public narratives that connect historical traumas to health impacts through public and personal contemporary reminders and the degree of narrative salience.
What is the Narrative Model of How Historical Trauma Impacts Health?