Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering
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Resumo: | The 1987 radioactive disaster in Goiânia - a 'critical event' - revealed the formation of new identities in opposition to the notion of radioacidentados (radiation victims), a classification established by the system of nuclear expertise and defined exclusively by the person's absorption of high-level doses of radiation. In the search to give meaning to their illness and suffering, new social subjects have emerged and elaborated new interpretations concerning the materiality of contaminated bodies. In narrating their subjective experiences, they situate their identities as victims in relation to the embodied experience of the contaminated site and the attribution of new meanings to certain objects associated with the disaster itself and nuclear technology in general. The text focuses on this articulation between the biological body, narratives, memory, 'things' and the constitution of social identities. It provides a historical analysis, supported by a multivocal ethnography of the Cesium-137 disaster. |
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Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of sufferingRadioactive disasternarrativesplaceembodied memorymaterial culturevictim identityThe 1987 radioactive disaster in Goiânia - a 'critical event' - revealed the formation of new identities in opposition to the notion of radioacidentados (radiation victims), a classification established by the system of nuclear expertise and defined exclusively by the person's absorption of high-level doses of radiation. In the search to give meaning to their illness and suffering, new social subjects have emerged and elaborated new interpretations concerning the materiality of contaminated bodies. In narrating their subjective experiences, they situate their identities as victims in relation to the embodied experience of the contaminated site and the attribution of new meanings to certain objects associated with the disaster itself and nuclear technology in general. The text focuses on this articulation between the biological body, narratives, memory, 'things' and the constitution of social identities. It provides a historical analysis, supported by a multivocal ethnography of the Cesium-137 disaster.Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA)2015-06-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412015000100260Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology v.12 n.1 2015reponame:Vibrantinstname:Associação Brasileira de Antropologiainstacron:ABA10.1590/1809-43412015v12n1p260info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSilva,Telma Camargo daeng2015-07-14T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S1809-43412015000100260Revistahttp://www.vibrant.org.br/https://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phpvibrant.aba@gmail.com1809-43411809-4341opendoar:2015-07-14T00:00Vibrant - Associação Brasileira de Antropologiafalse |
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Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering |
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Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering |
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Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering Silva,Telma Camargo da Radioactive disaster narratives place embodied memory material culture victim identity |
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Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering |
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Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering |
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Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering |
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Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering |
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Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering |
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Silva,Telma Camargo da |
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Silva,Telma Camargo da |
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Silva,Telma Camargo da |
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Radioactive disaster narratives place embodied memory material culture victim identity |
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Radioactive disaster narratives place embodied memory material culture victim identity |
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The 1987 radioactive disaster in Goiânia - a 'critical event' - revealed the formation of new identities in opposition to the notion of radioacidentados (radiation victims), a classification established by the system of nuclear expertise and defined exclusively by the person's absorption of high-level doses of radiation. In the search to give meaning to their illness and suffering, new social subjects have emerged and elaborated new interpretations concerning the materiality of contaminated bodies. In narrating their subjective experiences, they situate their identities as victims in relation to the embodied experience of the contaminated site and the attribution of new meanings to certain objects associated with the disaster itself and nuclear technology in general. The text focuses on this articulation between the biological body, narratives, memory, 'things' and the constitution of social identities. It provides a historical analysis, supported by a multivocal ethnography of the Cesium-137 disaster. |
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