States of violence :
States of violence : war, capital punishment, and letting die /
edited by Austin Sarat, Jennifer L. Culbert.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- xi, 320 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780521876278 (hardback) 0521876273 (hardback) 9780521699761 (pbk.) 0521699762 (pbk.)
2008046621
GBA930389 bnb
014937420 Uk
Political violence.
Capital punishment.
HN90.V5 / S8324 2009
/
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780521876278 (hardback) 0521876273 (hardback) 9780521699761 (pbk.) 0521699762 (pbk.)
2008046621
GBA930389 bnb
014937420 Uk
Political violence.
Capital punishment.
HN90.V5 / S8324 2009
/
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