Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering
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2015
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The 1987 radioactive disaster in Goiânia – a ‘critical event’ – revealed the formation
of new identities in opposition to the notion of radioacidentados (radiation
victims), a classification established by the system of nuclear expertise
and defined exclusively by the person’s absorption of high-level doses of
radiation. In the search to give meaning to their illness and suffering, new
social subjects have emerged and elaborated new interpretations concerning
the materiality of contaminated bodies. In narrating their subjective experiences,
they situate their identities as victims in relation to the embodied
experience of the contaminated site and the attribution of new meanings to
certain objects associated with the disaster itself and nuclear technology in
general. The text focuses on this articulation between the biological body,
narratives, memory, ‘things’ and the constitution of social identities. It
provides a historical analysis, supported by a multivocal ethnography of the
Cesium-137 disaster.
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Radioactive disastermaterial culture, Narratives, Place, Embodied memory, Victim identity, Desastre radioativo, Narrativas, Lugar, Memória corporificada, Cultura material, Identidade de vítima
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SILVA, Telma Camargo da. Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering. Vibrant: virtual brazilian anthropology, Brasília, DF, v. 12, n. 1, p. 260-289, 2015.