Discipline and the other body : correction, corporeality, colonialism /

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A comparative historical and ethnographic perspective on corporeal violence, the body's emergence as a political entity in colonial and postcolonial governance, and the production of a discourse of human rights.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Pierce, Steven, 1968- (Editor), Rao, Anupama (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Colonies > Administration.
Postcolonialism.
Violence.
Punishment.
Human rights.
Violence
Human Rights
Postcolonialisme.
Peines.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
postcolonialism.
violence.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Colonies > Administration
Human rights
Postcolonialism
Punishment
Kolonialvolk
Gewalt
Postkolonialismus
Kolonialverwaltung
Strafe
Einwohner
Colonialism.
Colonial administration.
Corporal punishments.
Oppression.
Droits de l'homme (droit international)
Kolonier.
Kroppsstraff.
Postkolonialism.
Mänskliga rättigheter.
Våld.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Discipline and the other body : humanitarianism, violence, and the colonial exception / Anupama Rao and Steven Pierce
  • Defining and defiling the criminal body at the Cape of Good Hope : punishing the crime of suicide under Dutch East India Company rule, circa 1652-1795 / Kerry Ward
  • The burden of Louis Congo and the evolution of savagery in colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy
  • "Sinful propensities" : piracy, sodomy, and empire in the rhetoric of naval reform, 1770-1870 / Isaac Land
  • The raj's other great game : policing the sexual frontiers of the Indian army in the first half of the nineteenth century / Douglas M. Peers
  • Problems of violence, states of terror : torture in colonial India / Anupama Rao
  • Punishment and the political body : flogging and colonialism in northern Nigeria / Steven Pierce
  • Footbinding and anti-footbinding in China : the subject of pain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Dorothy Ko
  • An economy of suffering : addressing the violence of discipline in railway workers' petitions to the agent of the East Indian Railway, 1930-47 / Laura Bear
  • Spirit discipline : gender, Islam, and hierarchies of treatment in postcolonial northern Nigeria / Susan O'Brien
  • Selections from Castaway / Yvette Christianse.

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