Healing and Change in the City of Gold : Case Studies of Coping and Support in Johannesburg /

This volume offers radically new ways of thinking about precarious life in the city of Johannesburg. Using case studies as varied as Pentecostal and Zionist churches, brothels, shelters, political movements for change in Zimbabwe, ex-soldiers groups, counseling services and art projects, this volume...

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Other Authors: Palmary, Ingrid (Editor), Hamber, Brandon (Editor), Núñez, Lorena (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Series:Peace psychology book series ; 24.
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505 0 |a Chapter 1: Case studies of precarious life in Johannesburg -- Chapter 2: The Suitcase Project: Working with unaccompanied child refugees in new ways -- Chapter 3: Shaping New Spaces: An alternative approach to healing in current “shelter” interventions for vulnerable women in Johannesburg -- Chapter 4.Violence and Memory in Breaking the Silence of Gukurahundi: A case study of the ZAM in Johannesburg, South Africa -- Chapter 5: Between remorse and nostalgia: Haunting memories of war and the search for healing among former Zimbabwean soldiers in exile in South Africa -- Chapter 6: Violence, suffering and support: Congolese forced migrants’ experiences of psychosocial services in Johannesburg -- Chapter 7:Watching each others’ back, coping with precarity in sex work.-  Chapter 8:Tormented by Umnyama: An urban cosmology of migration and misfortune in inner-city Johannesburg -- Chapter 9: Faith healing, migration and gendered conversions in Pentecostal churches in Johannesburg -- Chapter 10: Healing and deliverance in the city of gold. 
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