Re-placement of selves – An anthropological study of place-based engagement in a Danish community health center
(2016) SANM03 20161Department of Sociology
Social Anthropology
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- Abstract:
This thesis is an anthropological study on how a group of people suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD] construct meaning in a community center in Copenhagen. The specific aim of this thesis is to investigate how place can be understood as a factor that plays into well-being and recovery. Based on a case study of a Danish community health center, this study shows how users construct significant lives through stories of their past. The accounts of their past are a way of escaping their present, and, the social practice is mediated by the place. Applying the Foucauldian concept of Heterotopia, the community center is seen as a refuge – a counter place to societal order - and takes on emancipatory character for its... (More) - Abstract:
This thesis is an anthropological study on how a group of people suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD] construct meaning in a community center in Copenhagen. The specific aim of this thesis is to investigate how place can be understood as a factor that plays into well-being and recovery. Based on a case study of a Danish community health center, this study shows how users construct significant lives through stories of their past. The accounts of their past are a way of escaping their present, and, the social practice is mediated by the place. Applying the Foucauldian concept of Heterotopia, the community center is seen as a refuge – a counter place to societal order - and takes on emancipatory character for its users. However, it is precisely this counter-character of the place that prevents the users from rejoining the world outside. (Less) - Popular Abstract
- This thesis is an anthropological study on how a group of people suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD] construct meaning in a community center in Copenhagen. The specific aim of this thesis is to investigate how place can be understood as a factor that plays into well-being and recovery. Based on a case study of a Danish community health center, this study shows how users construct significant lives through stories of their past. The accounts of their past are a way of escaping their present, and, the social practice is mediated by the place. Applying the Foucauldian concept of Heterotopia, the community center is seen as a refuge – a counter place to societal order - and takes on emancipatory character for its users.... (More)
- This thesis is an anthropological study on how a group of people suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD] construct meaning in a community center in Copenhagen. The specific aim of this thesis is to investigate how place can be understood as a factor that plays into well-being and recovery. Based on a case study of a Danish community health center, this study shows how users construct significant lives through stories of their past. The accounts of their past are a way of escaping their present, and, the social practice is mediated by the place. Applying the Foucauldian concept of Heterotopia, the community center is seen as a refuge – a counter place to societal order - and takes on emancipatory character for its users. However, it is precisely this counter-character of the place that prevents the users from rejoining the world outside. (Less)
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- author
- Kay Ewald, Simon LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SANM03 20161
- year
- 2016
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Place, Heterotopia, Anthropology, Mental illness, Refugees, Healthcare system, Denmark
- language
- English
- id
- 8891466
- date added to LUP
- 2016-09-12 12:25:32
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- 2016-09-12 12:25:32
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