Patricia EHRKAMP, University of Kentucky, United States
Within Western paradigms, across humanities and social sciences, trauma has largely been characterized through temporal and spatial dislocation. Critical studies of trauma, however, suggest that such framings of rupture, catastrophe, and mass displacement can obscure longer term and structural forms of violence, such as colonialism and gender-based violence. Drawing on qualitative research on how trauma concepts and practices are mobilized in the process of refugee resettlement, this paper explores the displacement, emplacement, and transitivity of trauma through the process of refugee resettlement. Our research shows that trauma is neither a one-time event that is endlessly relived and reactivated in identical episodes nor does trauma emplace a singular geography. Rather, trauma can be understood as a set of serial emplacements and displacements across multiple sites, in our case transnationally through family separation produced by the global refugee regime. (Co-authors Prof. Jenna Loyd, University of Wisconsin and Prof. Anna Secor, Durham University)
Mots clés : displacement|feminist|geopolitics|Iraqi refugees|trauma
A104277PE