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ABSTRACT
This discussion focuses on two questions: How does this psychoanalytic paper help social scientists broaden their understanding of the psychic (as opposed to the social and political) experiences of displacement and citizenship? How might the clinical and theoretical psychoanalytic insights in this paper benefit from a dialogue with social scientists? I argue that Lisa Beritzhoff’s paper offers non-psychoanalytic researchers exciting and innovative ways to conceptualize the disempowering psychic effects of displacement. Social science research offers a focus on the complex variety of political experiences that a person or group may have along the journey to safety, and how an uneven array of functional and structural dimensions complicates the psychic experience of displacement.
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Bettina von Lieres
Bettina von Lieres, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She is currently the cochair of the Teaching, Training and Mentoring Committee of the SSHRC-funded global research partnership, the Participedia Project, which is hosted by UBC’s Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. The Participedia Project is an international research partnership with the goal of creating a common, open-source knowledge resource about global participatory democratic innovations. She has a PhD in Political Theory (University of Essex, 2002). Her recent publications include two books - Domains of Freedom: Justice, Citizenship and Social Change in South Africa (2016, co-edited with Thembela Kepe and Melissa Levin) and Mediated Citizenships: The Informal Politics of Speaking for Citizens in the Global South (2014, co-edited with Laurence Piper).