States of violence:war, capital punishment, and letting die /

This book calls into question the legitimacy of state uses of violence and mounts a sustained effort at interpretation, sense making, and critique.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarat, Austin, Culbert, Jennifer Louise
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Political violence.
Capital punishment.
Violence politique.
Peine de mort.
terrorism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Capital punishment
Political violence
Todesstrafe
Staatsgewalt
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Interpreting the violent state / Austin Sarat and Jennifer L. Culbert
  • On the forms of state killing
  • The innocuousness of state lethality in an age of national security / Robin Wagner-Pacifici
  • Oedipal sovereignty and the war in Iraq / Jeremy Arnold
  • Sacrifice and sovereignty / Mateo Taussig-Rubbo
  • Due process and lethal confinement / Colin Dayan
  • From time to torture : the hellish future of the criminal sentence / Thomas L. Dumm
  • The child in the broom closet : states of killing and letting die / Elizabeth A. Povinelli
  • The lethality of the Canadian state's (re)cognition of indigenous peoples / Mark Antaki and Coel Kirkby
  • Investigating the discourses of death
  • Death in the first person / Peter Brooks
  • Open secrets, or the postscript of capital punishment / Ravit Pe'er-Lamo Reichman
  • Ethical exception : capital punishment in the figure of sovereignty / Adam Thurschwell
  • No mercy / Adam Sitze.

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