Governing the dead : : sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies / / edited by Finn Stepputat.
In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relationship between bodies and sovereignty, Governing the dead explores how, by whom and with what effects dead bodies are governed in conflict and non-confl...
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| Superior document: | Human remains and violence |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, 2014. Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, [2020] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Human remains and violence.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) :; illustrations; digital file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Finn Stepputat
- 1. Governing the dead: theoretical approaches / Finn Stepputat
- PART I: Containment and negotiation
- 2. The proper funeral: death, landscape and power among the Dukha Tuvinians in post-Soviet Mongolia / Benedicte Møller Kristensen
- 3. Dead zone: pollution, contamination, and the neglected dead in post-war Saigon / Christophe Robert
- 4. Traveling corpses: negotiating sovereign claims in Oaxacan post-mortem repatriation / Lars Ove Trans
- 5. Claiming the dead, defining the nation – Contested narratives of the independence struggle in post-conflict Timor-Leste / Henri Myrttinen
- 6. Re-making the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe / Joost Fontein
- PART II: Transgression
- 7. Governing the disappeared-dead in Argentina: violent state formation and territoriality during authoritarian rule / Antonius C.G.M. Robben
- 8. Dangerous corpses in Mexico’s drug war / Regnar Kristensen
- 9. Time as weather: corpse-work in the prehistory of political boundaries / Richard Kernaghan
- 10. Feminicide: governing through the mutilated female body / Ninna Nyberg Sørensen Outro
- 11. Abandonment and victory in relations with dead bodies / John Borneman
- Index.