Starve and immolate : the politics of human weapons /

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Starve and Immolate tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons. Weaving together contemporary and critical political theory with political ethnography, Banu Bargu analyzes...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bargu, Banu (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.
Series:New directions in critical theory.
Subjects:
Since 1980
Hunger strikes > Turkey > History > 21st century.
Protest movements > Turkey > History > 21st century.
Prisoners > Civil rights > Turkey.
Political prisoners > Turkey.
Human body > Political aspects > Turkey.
Government, Resistance to > Turkey.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Middle East > Turkey & Ottoman Empire.
Politics and government
Government, Resistance to
Human body > Political aspects
Hunger strikes
Political prisoners
Prisoners > Civil rights
Protest movements
Turkey > Politics and government > 1980-
Turquie > Politique et gouvernement > 1980-
Turkey
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the death fast struggle and the weaponization of life
  • Biosovereignty and necroresistance
  • Crisis of sovereignty
  • The biosovereign assemblage and its tactics
  • Prisoners in revolt
  • Marxism, martyrdom, memory
  • Contentions within necroresistance
  • Conclusion : from chains to bodies.

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