Tattered Textures of Kinship: The Effects of Torture Among Iraqi Families in Denmark
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Tattered Textures of Kinship : The Effects of Torture Among Iraqi Families in Denmark. / Segal, Lotte Buch.
I: Medical Anthropology, Bind 37, Nr. 7, 2018, s. 553-567.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Tattered Textures of Kinship
T2 - The Effects of Torture Among Iraqi Families in Denmark
AU - Segal, Lotte Buch
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Denmark, primarily among Iraqi women and secondarily among Iraqi men who are either direct or indirect victims of torture, I explore how the memories of torture are distributed in the everyday lives of Danish families originating from Iraq. I argue that torture is folded into kin histories and the everyday work of bearing and resisting painful memories. Consequently, torture affects not only the mental and physical health of the singular survivor, but also the entire texture of kin relatedness around him or her, to the extent that kinship normativity may be disrupted. Leaning on the metaphor of a rugged cloth, I conclude by arguing that the way in which torture makes and unmakes kin relatedness congeals in what I term tattered textures of kinship.
AB - Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Denmark, primarily among Iraqi women and secondarily among Iraqi men who are either direct or indirect victims of torture, I explore how the memories of torture are distributed in the everyday lives of Danish families originating from Iraq. I argue that torture is folded into kin histories and the everyday work of bearing and resisting painful memories. Consequently, torture affects not only the mental and physical health of the singular survivor, but also the entire texture of kin relatedness around him or her, to the extent that kinship normativity may be disrupted. Leaning on the metaphor of a rugged cloth, I conclude by arguing that the way in which torture makes and unmakes kin relatedness congeals in what I term tattered textures of kinship.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Denmark
KW - Iraqi refugees
KW - gender
KW - kinship
KW - mental health
KW - torture
U2 - 10.1080/01459740.2018.1462807
DO - 10.1080/01459740.2018.1462807
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 29745732
VL - 37
SP - 553
EP - 567
JO - Medical Anthropology
JF - Medical Anthropology
SN - 0145-9740
IS - 7
ER -
ID: 181307533