Joan Simalchik’s research while affiliated with University of Toronto and other places

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Publications (7)


Disrupting Legacies of Trauma: Interdisciplinary Interventions for Health and Human Rights
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June 2021

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Health and Human Rights

Joan Simalchik

The devastation caused by war and atrocity extends beyond the battlefield and creates conditions with severe public health consequences in affected societies. The infliction of socially organized mass violence and the suppression of reporting of harms has an impact on multiple levels: the individual, the familial, and the social. Ignacio Martín Baró, a Jesuit priest and social psychologist, explored the impact of psychosocial trauma while living and dying in the 1980-1992 Salvadoran civil war. His depiction of the multilevel impact of atrocity provides insight into the connection between health and human rights. This article discusses how his analysis of the constituent parts of psychosocial trauma continues to hold relevance for understanding the legacy of historical events and points to possibilities for mitigating health harm in various contemporary contexts.

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The Material Culture of Chilean Exile: A Transnational Dialogue

June 2006

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Refuge Canada s Journal on Refuge

In the aftermath of the 1973 coup d'état, Chileans man-aged to find refuge in more than forty of the world's coun-tries. They left with the expectation that they would only need temporary asylum, but instead found themselves in a state of prolonged exile. In order to speed the day of re-turn and as antidote to the trauma of exile, Chileans cre-ated communities in opposition to the Pinochet dictatorship. Through resistance strategies enacted in a constructed site of struggle, Chilean exile communities fa-cilitated remembrance through commemorative practices, cultural forms, testimony, and the preservation of endan-gered material culture that became decisive for legal cases against impunity and as a basis for historical inquiry.




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... Calumbiran (2021), further postulates that and highlight the various types of traumatic experiences encountered by journalists and explores the psychological consequences of trauma exposure, including posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, and burnout. Subsequently, this is also buttressed in the study of Simalchik (2021), where he opines that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common psychological disorder that may develop in journalists exposed to traumatic events. PTSD is characterized by symptoms such as re-experiencing the traumatic event through intrusive memories or nightmares, avoidance of trauma-related stimuli, negative alterations in mood and cognition, and heightened arousal and reactivity. ...

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TRAUMA JOURNALISM AND THE MENTAL HEALTH OF JOURNALISTS IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIA
Disrupting Legacies of Trauma: Interdisciplinary Interventions for Health and Human Rights

Health and Human Rights

... What had been known surreptitiously about past human rights crimes might be reluctantly exposed, but not always officially championed by states following war and atrocity. Ambiguity can shroud truth j. simalchik / public and mental health, human rights, and atrocity prevention, 11-25 49 Efforts, such as truth commissions, that set out the facts of past atrocities can begin to counter the legacy of institutional lies and help the past emerge into the national consciousness. New realities continue to emerge that require a precise reading of the evolving political and social spheres after the cessation of hostilities and violence. ...

The Public Dimension of Privatized Trauma: Impact and Response
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  • April 2019

... Ambas imágenes eran transmitidas por medio de relatos y dispositivos culturales, como posters, discos, comida y arpilleras (Simalchik, 2006). A pesar de esta ambivalencia, la construcción nostálgica de Chile motivó el retorno de muchas personas al término de la dictadura. ...

The Material Culture of Chilean Exile: A Transnational Dialogue

Refuge Canada s Journal on Refuge