Narratives of Transformative Reconciliation

Exploring Contours of Happiness

Gopi Devdutt Tripathy, Anurita Jalan

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Routledge India
26 September 2025

Philosophy of mind; Counselling & advice services; Public health & preventive medicine; Psychotherapy; Trauma & shock

Series: Social Movements and Transformative Dissent

This book looks at ethnographies of survival, reconciliation, and resilience in communities and individuals. It interrogates the definition of happiness, hope and despair and explores how communities and individuals navigate life when besieged by trauma and the processes they must go through to enable healing.

Devastations caused by violence force people to look for ways to deal with seemingly irreconcilable life circumstances. Sometimes these efforts are individual and sometimes collective. People draw on a variety of resources, such as religion, culture, family and kinship networks, friends, literature, storytelling, art, theatre, and counselling to come to grips with their circumstances. This volume discusses such efforts through a multidisciplinary lens. It looks at ethnographic accounts of communities and individuals that showcase methods used to renegotiate, reconfigure the pain and to enable a life of dignity, healing and social transformation. It also looks at violence, memory, trauma, dislocation through different prisms.

Part of the Social Movements and Transformative Dissent series, this book will be of interest to students, academicians, activists, and all those engaged with the study of trauma studies, mental health, philosophy of psychology, behavioural sciences, philosophy, humanities, clinical psychology, gender and peace and conflict studies.

Edited by: Gopi Devdutt Tripathy, Anurita Jalan
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032702261
ISBN 10: 1032702265
Series: Social Movements and Transformative Dissent
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 26 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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

Gopi Devdutt Tripathy is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi. She completed her doctorate on Shia Observation of Muharram from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research interests include religion, sociological theory, popular culture, gender studies, sociology of knowledge and literary studies. She has a number of publications in journals and books. Anurita Jalan is an Associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi. Her areas of interest are Sociology of Health and Medicine, Gender Studies, Family and Marriage, and Ethics in the everyday life of students. She was the Deputy Coordinator, D.S. Kothari Centre for Science, Ethics and Education, University of Delhi, for the year 2011. Programs were held under the guidance of the D.S. Kothari Centre in consultation with His Holiness the Dalia Lama and scientists/social scientists of national and international fame. She has presented papers in some national and international workshops and symposia related to her areas of interest. She has also written articles/chapters for some journals and books.