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Performances of violence /
From acts of terrorism to war, from arson to capital punishment, from Sadism to torture, performances of violence are all around us. Sometimes they grab headlines and rivet our attention, sometimes they are barely noticed, constituting part of our taken-for-granted world. Yet whether dramatic or har...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : How does violence perform? / Carleen Basler, Thomas L. Dumm, and Austin Sarat
- Easy to be hard : conservatism and violence / Corey Robin
- Violence without agency / Ruth A. Miller
- Performing monstrous violence : Aileen Wuornos, murder, abuse, and exploitation / Mary Welek Atwell
- On the uses of dogs : Abu Ghraib and the American soul / Anne Norton
- Passionate performance : 26/11, Mumbai / Veena Das
- Ordinary violence on an extraordinary stage : incidents on the sector border in postwar Berlin / Paul Steege.