Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera
• Lykes, M Brinton
• Moane, Geraldine

Titel

The Political Economy of Children's Trauma: A Case Study of House Demolition in Palestine

Ist Teil von

• Feminism & psychology, 2009-08, Vol.19 (3), p.335-342

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Shalhoub-Kevorkian explores children's experiences of war within a global political economy of silence. He narrates that this work is to capture children's complex understandings of, and responses to, the trauma of ongoing militarization and political occupation as reflected in their perceptions of the loss of their homes. By utilizing the voices of children facing attacks against their home/safe space, he argues that understanding trauma in conflict zones requires looking closely at children's descriptions of their ever-shifting relationships to different spaces as sites of trauma, resilience and agency. Furthermore, listening to how children reconstruct their individual and collective histories opens up possibilities for theorizing social trauma through a feminist and liberationist framework.