What is it about?
What does embodiment mean for people who gain impairments post-conflict? What role do the emotions play and why do they become important to understanding the success of interventions or programmes. I try and answer these questions in light of how people described themselves as amputee and/or war-wounded in post-conflict Sierra Leone.
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Why is it important?
This article argues that any interventions that you apply post-conflict need to attend to multiple layers including the spiritual. Interventions have to be material, spiritual (visible and invisible) and embodied (true inclusion) to have an impact in reintegrating people who gain an impairment or view themselves as disabled. The articles also illustrates the consequences of Western interventions on embodiment.
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This page is a summary of: Embodiment and Emotion in Sierra Leone, Third World Quarterly, September 2011, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2011.604515.
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