Nancy Rose Hunt

A Nervous State

Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo

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Produktbeschreibung

Nancy Rose Hunt tells the affective history of the convergence of biopolitics and colonial violence in the Belgian Congo. By showing how the shifts and interactions between the biopolitical state and the nervous state drove the colonial government's actions toward the Congolese, Hunt provides a new model for theorizing colonialism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359654
• ISBN-10: 0822359650
• Artikelnr.: 42412948

Autorenporträt

Nancy Rose Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, and the author of the prizewinning A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo, also published by Duke University Press.  

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. Registers of Violence  27
2. Maria N'koi  61
3. Emergency Time  95
4. Shock Talk and Flywhisks  135
5. A Penal Colony, an Infertility Clinic  167
6. Motion  207
Conclusion. Field Coda and Other Endings  237
Notes  255
Bibliography  309
Index  343