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Chapter 4 • Nicola Mai<br />
ing a framework within which the explanations given as reasons for pain,<br />
sorrow and suffering can “make sense”. The exposure and revelation of the<br />
real and disguised political and economic rationales underpinning ethnic<br />
politics and policies can offer the possibility of a parallel re-politicization<br />
of ethnicity and trauma discourses and of a de-traumatization and deethnicization<br />
of the political discursive field. This parallel process can<br />
offer new narrative resources for both the wider process of democratization<br />
and the therapeutic context, as it introduces the possibility of psychologically<br />
healing the individual through an understanding of the social<br />
world, which is more responsive to his/her lived experiences of increasing<br />
diversity and complexity.<br />
Notes<br />
1. Before the beginning of the Kosovo crisis, ARCS had been running four youth<br />
centres (since July 1998), which welcomed many young refugees throughout<br />
the duration of the war. Young refugees were included in the project both as<br />
beneficiaries of assistance, and as active participants. They actively participated<br />
in the development and organization of activities and initiatives for the<br />
refugee population and the new arrivals. The activities took place both at the<br />
youth centres and in the main refugee camps set up in the areas of Tirana,<br />
Durres, Berat and Gjirokaster.<br />
2. For a detailed overview of the social and economic consequences of the<br />
process of Serbianization of Kosovo since 1981, please see Clark, 2000: 70-<br />
121 and Vickers, 1998: 218-287.<br />
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Anzulovic, B.<br />
1999 Heavenly Serbia, Hurst & Co, London.<br />
Clark, H.<br />
2000 Civil Resistance in Kosovo, Pluto Press, London.<br />
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Collected Papers, The Hogarth Press, London: 30-60.<br />
1955 “The ‘Uncanny”, in J. Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the<br />
Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 17 (1917-19), The<br />
Hogarth Press, London: 217-253.<br />
1956 “Negation”, in J. Strachey (ed.), The Standard Edition of the Complete<br />
Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 14 (1917-19), London, The<br />
Hogarth Press: 235-9.<br />
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1998 L’Albanie entre la pensée totalitaire et la raison fragmentaire,<br />
L’Harmattan, Paris.<br />
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