The politics of suffering: from the survivor-witness to humanitarian witnessing

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The politics of suffering: from the survivor-witness to humanitarian witnessing

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Yale University

Carolyn Dean discusses the proliferation of the language of trauma and suffering in the late twentieth century, illustrating the benefit of taking a long historical view. Read the Study

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