Iron in the Soul

Displacement, Livelihood and Health in Cyprus
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84545-444-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Forced Migration

In his vivid, lively account of how Greek Cypriot villagers coped with a thirty-year displacement, Peter Loïzos follows a group of people whom he encountered as prosperous farmers in 1968, yet found as disoriented refugees when revisiting in 1975. By providing a forty year in-depth perspective unusual in the social sciences, this study yields unconventional insights into the deeper meanings of displacement. It focuses on reconstruction of livelihoods, conservation of family, community, social capital, health (both physical and mental), religious and political perceptions. The author argues for a closer collaboration between anthropology and the life sciences, particularly medicine and social epidemiology, but suggests that qualitative life-history data have an important role to play in the understanding of how people cope with collective stress.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loizos, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, Graphs, Maps and Tables

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Crisis State and Displaced Citizens

Chapter 2. Ambivalent Relations: Moments in the Unmixing of a Village

Chapter 3. Exits South: Improvisation Vignettes

Chapter 4. Economic Recovery: A Retrospective View

Chapter 5. Crisis Management by Political Consensus

Chapter 6. Revisiting Former Homes

Chapter 7. The Referendum 2004: Too Little, and Too Late?

Chapter 8. Hearts as well as Minds: Illness and Well being

Chapter 9. Coping with Severe Life Events

Chapter 10. A Sociology of Argaki Displacement: the Thirty Year View

Chapter 11. In Their Own Words

Chapter 12. Iron in the Soul: On Grievance and Transcendence

Bibliography

Appendix I: Cyprus Historical Highlights

Appendix II: Main Political Groupings and Parties

Appendix III: Presidents of the Republic of Cyprus

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Loizos, Peter
Peter Loizos (1937-2012), was Professor Emeritus in Anthropology, London School of Economics. He was born in London, studied at Cambridge, Harvard and L.S.E., where he taught Social Anthropology for thirty-three years. As a photographer and documentary filmmaker, Peter Loïzos wrote a textbook on ethnographic films, and carried out development consultancies in Sudan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh for organisations including Oxfam, Save the Children and DFID. His latest work was an attempt to refine the concept of 'generation' in forced migration studies.