The Body in Pain

Child's Play? Children and Young People's Resistances to Domestic Violence and Abuse

“…In a previous paper (Callaghan and others, ), we explored Scarry's () claim that the pain associated with controlling and systematic violence ‘unmakes the world’. In this paper, we consider how play might function as part of CYP's repertoire to cope with and resist DVA.…”

Tracing disappearance

“…Rather, it is an example of the slow and painstaking remaking of the world that Elaine Scarry talks about in the face of the violent unmaking of disappearance. 67 Moreover, it is a co-production. Scarry talks about the making of a coat as a way of making someone warm -a making of human sentience -as we saw in Chapter 2.…”

“…In our pedagogy, too, we may design modules that, like Scarry's woman making a coat, are not aimed to produce 'a course' per se, but to 'remake human sentience'. 50 Of course, the context in which we work will sometimes make that difficult, as I discuss further in Chapter 10.…”

Stories for Asylum: Narrative and Credibility in the United States’ Political Asylum Application

“…36 She also states that a key assumption underlying anti-torture advocacy work, medicine, and law is that "verbally expressing pain is a necessary prelude to the collective task of diminishing pain. " 37 Taking these together, Scarry claims (1) the more effective your language is in conveying your pain, the more effectively we are able to overcome our doubt, and (2) if you cannot tell us your pain, we cannot fix it. Below is an excerpt of a conversation between two asylum officers: Asylum Officer 1: When I get somebody from China who I know is a PhD, I'm much more generous with them than I am with some guy who I may think is cooking in the back of some kitchen.…”