In this class we will consider the local and global political economies of victimization and trauma. What is trauma? Who is a victim? who is a perpetrator? What are the political and moral issues at play? For whom?

 Invited guests: Ricardo Chaparro and Ketty Anyeko TBC

Readings
1. Million, Dian. (2013). Therapeutic nations: healing in an age of indigenous human rights. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press. ‘Introduction.’
2. Fassin, D., & Rechtman, R. (2009). The Empire of Trauma. An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Preface and Chapter 1.
3. James, Erica Caple. (2010). “Ruptures, rights, and repair: The political economy of trauma in Haiti.” Social Science & Medicine 70.1 (2010): 106-113.
4. Golubovic, Jelena. ““One Day I Will Tell this to My Daughter”: Serb Women, Silence, and the Politics of Victimhood in Sarajevo.” Anthropological Quarterly, vol. 92, no. 4, 2019, pp. 1173-1199.