Narratives of Transformative Reconciliation : Exploring Contours of Happiness (Hardcover)

1. Introduction 2. Ornament(al) Happiness 3. Where The Mind is Without Fear 4. Expanding Frontiers of Healing and Well-being: Exploring Philosophical Praxis 5. Through the lens of the practitioner 6. Building Resilience in Young Adults 7. Violence and Memories of the Partition: Ethnography of resilience 8. ‘Toba Tek Singh’ and ‘Sardar:’ Violence and Reinventing the Self 9. Beyond Partition: The Transition of Refugee Women of Bengal from Victims to Activists 10. Happiness or Hollowness… just a Heave: Murmuring as a Form of Negotiating Existence 11. Collective Commemoration in Sites of Ruin Keep the Palestinian Nakba Alive 12. Theatre and the Articulation of Trauma: The Case of Palestine and Iran 13. Narratives of and by the Self: Building Resilience through Writing 14. Autoethnography of Forgiveness 15. Single Parents and the Search for Happiness: Gendered Norms to Lived Reality 16. Negotiating with Trauma in Everyday Lives: A Sociological Analysis of Women ex-combatants in the Maoist Movement of Odisha 17. Borderlands to Centre: Memories of Violence and Aspirations as Mechanism of Reconciliation among Sindhi and Rohingya Migrants in Delhi 18. Ethnographies of Pain: Material Evidence of Structural Violence 19. Commemorating and Reconstructing Past: Narratives of ‘Dalit Women’ Identity