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Governing the dead Sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies /
This book looks at sovereignty as a particular form of power and politics. It shows that the fate of bodies in the transition from life to death can provide a key to understanding fundamental ways in which sovereignty is claimed and performed. The contributions analyse (post-)conflict as well as non...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[s.l.] :
Manchester University Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.