Speaker: Isaac Gagne (Postdoctoral Fellow, CUHK’s Department of Japanese Studies)
Date and time: 12 November 2015, 7:00pm
Venue: Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road, Tsim Sha Tsui
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Four-and-a-half
years since the 2011 disaster in
Japan, over 190,000 people remain displaced, and many still struggle with
physical, social, and psychological trauma. In response to post-disaster
challenges, a combination of secular and religious volunteer movements have
emerged, addressing distinct yet overlapping dimensions of caring and
community-building for survivors through what they call “care for the heart.”
In this presentation I discuss my ongoing fieldwork on these different forms of
“grassroots psychosocial therapy” operating in-between psychiatric, religious,
and social spheres. I talk about how as a movement of non-governmental,
non-medical “average citizens” who volunteer to listen to and console other
“average citizens” suffering from the disaster, these groups have become a
grassroots force for social support, community-building, and reflexive
psychotherapy, both for survivors and for the volunteers themselves.
Isaac
Gagné is a Postdoctoral Fellow at
CUHK’s Department of Japanese Studies working on religion, morality, gender and
identity in Japan.
For more information, please contact Stan Dyer on 9746
9537 or anthrohk@gmail.com, www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/hkas, or www.facebook.com/hkanthro.
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