Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering

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Autor(a) principal: Silva,Telma Camargo da
Data de Publicação: 2015
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Vibrant
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412015000100260
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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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering
title Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering
spellingShingle 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
title_short Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering
title_full Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering
title_fullStr Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering
title_full_unstemmed Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering
title_sort Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering
author Silva,Telma Camargo da
author_facet Silva,Telma Camargo da
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Silva,Telma Camargo da
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Radioactive disaster
narratives
place
embodied memory
material culture
victim identity
topic Radioactive disaster
narratives
place
embodied memory
material culture
victim identity
description 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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