Doświadczenie traumatyczne w Rwandzie

Małgorzata Wosińska

doi:10.26881/etno.2022.8.07

Authors

Małgorzata Wosińska University of Warsaw https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4732-0784

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26881/etno.2022.8.07

Keywords:

trauma, Rwanda, genocide, Holocaust, decolonial studies

Abstract

In the article, I redefine the traumatic experience that has been ubiquitous on both individ- ual and collective levels for people in Rwanda since the 1994 genocide. Using ethnographic and psychotraumatological methods, I point out the limitations of the Western-centric psychoanalytic approach and the presence of discursive elements derived directly from the public discourse on the Holocaust, which – too often understood as a model discourse – in practice makes it impossible to recognize the nature of a specific trauma or real identities of the injured subjects. In the text, I propose to adopt an emic/vernacular position on this issue, and to ponder the decolonization potential inherent in such a perspective.

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Author Biography

Małgorzata Wosińska, University of Warsaw

Anthropologist of genocide, psychotraumatologist, the lecturer of the international association of universities Network on Humanitarian Action (NOHA) at the University of Warsaw.
Research interests: postcolonial discourse Holocaust studies, issues of mass atrocity prevention, contemporary museum exhibitions (in the context of representing border experiences), ethics of qualitative research

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