@article{ref1,
title="The politics of trauma: gender, futurity, and violence prevention in South Africa",
journal="Medical anthropology quarterly",
year="2021",
author="Pentecost, Michelle",
volume="35",
number="4",
pages="441-457",
abstract="In this article, I consider the framing of trauma as an epigenetic exposure that warrants intergenerational interventions. I draw on ethnographic research conducted in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa in 2014-15 to illustrate how violence prevention in this context is increasingly framed in epigenetic terms. I show that, in contrast to the anticipatory logic of a programmatic focus on maternal investment as a means to arrest intergenerational cycles of violence, violence produces different infrastructures of anticipation and effects on intergenerational relations. I argue against the speculative conflation of trauma and intergenerational epigenetics, to resist a newly biologized view of the bodily manifestations of apartheid history-in itself a re-inscription of damage, and a form of violence. Drawing on Murphy's concept of distributed reproduction (2017b), I argue for collectivized forms of intervention that aim for accountability and social justice.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0745-5194",
doi="10.1111/maq.12678",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/maq.12678"
}