Naslov
Postemotionalism, Health and Vulnerable Populations: Examples from Croatia &#8211 ; on the Receiving End of Humanitarianism

Autori
Špoljar-Vržina, Sanja-Marina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
15. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences / Chiarelli, Brunetto - Firenza : München : International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 2003

Skup
15. International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Humankind/Nature Interaction: Past, Present and Future

Mjesto i datum
Firenca, Italija, 05.07.2003. - 12.07.2003

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
anthropology; critical medical anthropology; postemotionalism; humanitarianism; vulnerable populations

Sažetak
In the past ten years Croatia has been on the receiving end of humanitarian assistance, development programes and finally the economy boosting programmes of the Western model. The new rules of the world-wide economy modernisation and globalisation era have heavily orientated the trends in humanitarian aid, psychiatry and medicine in general. In the past decade the reduction of social issues and suffering into a spectrum of easily comprehensible targets for the achievement of "commodified health" (Nichter, 1989) has been documented in the post-war and developing countries, alike. Words such as medicalisation, pathologisation, therapeutisation, politization have all been used in the course of the critique of the past decade, rightfully expressing the treatment that many populations underwent alongside their actual processes of suffering. Not only has health become a commodity, but emotions and social issues have been added, as well. Consequently, the reinforcement of biological reductionism and medicalisation of emotions and social issues on a global scale has become the standard of approaching the vulnerable populations (Bibeau et al., 1999). Understandably so, since the phase that the Western societies have entered is marked by the manipulation of synthetic, quasi-emotions done by self, others and the culture as a whole (Meštrović, 1999). Yet, the question of the extent of further traumatization due to the iatrogenesis of such "humanitarianism" is left unaccounted for. This study presents a response and analyses in this direction, drawn in the course of an on-going, long-term study with refugees and displaced persons in Croatia.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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