Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Postcolonial Disorders: Reflections on Subjectivity in the Contemporary World -- PART I: DISORDERED STATES -- 1. Madness and the Politically Real: Reflections on Violence in Postdictatorial Spain -- 2. Indonesia Sakit: Indonesian Disorders and the Subjective Experience and Interpretive Politics of Contemporary Indonesian Artists -- 3. The Political Dimensions of Emasculation: Fantasy, Conspiracy, and Estrangement among Populist Leaders in Post-New Order Lombok, Indonesia -- 4. Haunting Ghosts: Madness, Gender, and Ensekirite in Haiti in the Democratic Era -- 5. Laboratory of Intervention: The Humanitarian Governance of the Postcommunist Balkan Territories -- PART II: SUBJECTIVITY IN THE BORDERLANDS -- 6. Everyday AIDS Practices: Contestations of Borders and Infectious Disease in Southwest China -- 7. Of Maids and Prostitutes: Indonesian Female Migrants in the New Asian Hinterlands -- 8. Ambivalent Inquiry: Dilemmas of AIDS in the Republic of Congo -- 9. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable, II: Caught in the Borderlands of Palestine/Israel -- PART III: MADNESS, ALTERITY, AND PSYCHIATRY -- 10. The Mucker War: A History of Violence and Silence -- 11. Institutional Persons and Personal Institutions: The Asylum and Marginality in Rural Ireland -- 12. The Knot of the Soul: Postcolonial Conundrums, Madness, and the Imagination -- 13. Consuming Grief: Infant Death in the Postcolonial Time of Intervention -- 14. Postcoloniality as the Aftermath of Terror among Vietnamese Refugees -- 15. Cross-Cultural Psychiatry in Medical-Legal Documentation of Suffering: Human Rights Abuses Involving Transnational Corporations and the Yadana Pipeline Project in Burma -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.