Breathing In: Violence, Out: Peace
Breathing In Violence, Out Peace is a
book by Professor Ivana Milojević, published in 2013 by the University of Queensland Press, as part of the 'New Approaches to Peace and Conflict' Series. On this website you can find basic information about the book as well as additional text, photographs, and charts that were not included in the final edition of the publication.
Breathing: Violence In, Peace Out investigates the long-term impact of transgenerational trauma and of personal and collective experiences with violence. It looks at the possibilities for the emergence of more peaceful futures, including the individual and social practices necessary to bring them about. The text oscillates between a deeply personal and an academic tone of voice. The personal narratives, or ‘in’ sections, are mostly employed for describing violent events and follow the loosely chronological order and thematic context around which the chapters are organised. The academic voice, the ‘out’ section, is used mostly for reflection and for making sense of the experiences.
The rhythm created by inhaling and exhaling symbolically reflects not only how we ‘take in’ life and the world but also what we ‘give out’ to the people around us. This in–out pace models efforts to understand the links between violence–peace, self–other, individual–world history, personal–political, trauma–healing, experience–sense making, stability–change, safety–threat, oppressing–freeing, perception of reality–reality and past–future.
Breathing: Violence In, Peace Out
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Communism, utopia: the personal is political
Chapter 2 War, dystopia: the holy trinity of militarism, imperialism and nationalism
Chapter 3 Feminism, eutopia: challenging patriarchy and androcratic masculinities
Chapter 4 Living trauma, eupsychia: the political is personal
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Index
Breathing: Violence In, Peace Out investigates the long-term impact of transgenerational trauma and of personal and collective experiences with violence. It looks at the possibilities for the emergence of more peaceful futures, including the individual and social practices necessary to bring them about. The text oscillates between a deeply personal and an academic tone of voice. The personal narratives, or ‘in’ sections, are mostly employed for describing violent events and follow the loosely chronological order and thematic context around which the chapters are organised. The academic voice, the ‘out’ section, is used mostly for reflection and for making sense of the experiences.
The rhythm created by inhaling and exhaling symbolically reflects not only how we ‘take in’ life and the world but also what we ‘give out’ to the people around us. This in–out pace models efforts to understand the links between violence–peace, self–other, individual–world history, personal–political, trauma–healing, experience–sense making, stability–change, safety–threat, oppressing–freeing, perception of reality–reality and past–future.
Breathing: Violence In, Peace Out
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Communism, utopia: the personal is political
Chapter 2 War, dystopia: the holy trinity of militarism, imperialism and nationalism
Chapter 3 Feminism, eutopia: challenging patriarchy and androcratic masculinities
Chapter 4 Living trauma, eupsychia: the political is personal
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Index