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Msysh: The power of the eye
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Patiently Edona explained to me, “Evil eye gets unleashed when someone thinks ‘Oh this is good, this is nice.’ It will also happen when someone thinks that you are […]
Mërzitna: A conspiracy of emotion
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Emotion and talk about emotion are “simultaneously embodied and discursive ways of commenting on the possibilities, limitations, frustrations, and outcomes which an individual faces in engaging with the totality […]
The politics of nerves
The politics of nerves
“All of us are nervoz since the war.”
“How can we not feel nervoz after what we went through?”
Women who had survived the Kosovo War and struggled to […]
Symptom Lexicon
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The activity of list-making is an eclectic process that enables us to draw on varied, fragmentary sources, and simultaneously negotiate their meaning. It allows us to admire the creative […]
Voices of Pain
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my head is split
there is a stone in my stomach
I am worried
my neck hurts
my back hurts
heat moves […]
Therapeutic looking glass
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Therapeutic practice exposed society in its many facets to health practitioners providing treatment to women survivors of the Kosovo War. Like a mirror, it […]