Governing the Dead

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 sep 2014

Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains, this volume suggests that the management of dead bodies is related to the constitution and membership of states and non-state entities that claim autonomy and impunity. This volume is a significant contribution to studies of death, power and politics.

Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 524^.82 lei

Preț vechi: 753^.78 lei
-30%

Puncte Express: 787

:
92^.81€ • 108^.91$ • 80^.50£

Carte indisponibilă temporar

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!

Adaugă în listă

Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:

Trimite

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780719096082
ISBN-10: 0719096081
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: Illustrations, black & white|Tables
Dimensiuni: 140 x 218 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:UK edition
Editura: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Notă biografică

Finn Stepputat is Senior Researcher in Peace, Risk and Violence at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Cuprins

Introduction - Finn Stepputat 1. Governing the dead: theoretical approaches - Finn Stepputat PART I: Containment and negotiation 2. The proper funeral: death, landscape and power among the Dukha Tuvinians in post-Soviet Mongolia - Benedicte Møller Kristensen 3. Dead zone: pollution, contamination, and the neglected dead in post-war Saigon - Christophe Robert 4. Traveling corpses: negotiating sovereign claims in Oaxacan post-mortem repatriation - Lars Ove Trans 5. Claiming the dead, defining the nation - Contested narratives of the independence struggle in post-conflict Timor-Leste - Henri Myrttinen 6. Re-making the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe - Joost Fontein PART II: Transgression 7. Governing the disappeared-dead in Argentina: violent state formation and territoriality during authoritarian rule - Antonius C.G.M. Robben 8. Dangerous corpses in Mexico's drug war - Regnar Kristensen 9. Time as weather: corpse-work in the prehistory of political boundaries - Richard Kernaghan 10. Feminicide: governing through the mutilated female body - Ninna Nyberg Sørensen Outro 11. Abandonment and victory in relations with dead bodies - John Borneman Index

Descriere

In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relationship between bodies and sovereignty, Governing the dead explores how, by whom and with what effects dead bodies are governed in conflict and non-conflict contexts across the world, including an analys

Papetărie, jocuri, reviste