ANT 132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Joseph Kony, Ten Commandments, Microsoft Powerpoint
25 Nov 2015
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A pill for peace: trauma, psychopharmaceuticals, and talk therapies in post-conflict northern. Uganda (powerpoint) by guest speaker adrian lip shing yen. Terms/concepts: auspice(s, fraught concept, ethnographic vignettes, sensitization, commensurate, disenfranchise, explores humanitarian mental health interventions (2011-2013) and their relationship. Yen"s background: anthropologically with/impact on ugandan communities, trauma as a sociohistorical phenomena, cen = spirit (term used by a-choli[??], visited uganda for over a decade, generally, department of anthropology at ucd. A different kind of story about trauma: dominant narrative or official discourse about the war in northern uganda, joseph kony 2012 i) Invisible children-child soldiers being abducted: abducted children, ten commandments, africa as the heart of darkness: barbarous, savage, and without reason, the idiom of madness. A lot of assumptions on the politics of the world and the efficacy of certain biomedical understandings of mental health/illness: ptsd, and other diagnoses have a biopolitical meaning/application especially in regards to third world countries.
