Steven Pierce / Anupama Rao

Discipline and the Other Body

Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism
Herausgeber: Rao, Anupama

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337430
• ISBN-10: 0822337436
• Artikelnr.: 21311934

Autorenporträt

Steven Pierce and Anupama Rao, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Discipline and the Other Body: Humanitarianism, Violence, and the Colonial
Exception / Anupama Tao and Steven Pierce 1
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 36
The Burden of Louis Congo and the Evolution of Savagery in Colonial
Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy 61
“Sinful Propensities”: Piracy, Sodomy, and Empire in the Rhetoric of Naval
Reform, 1770–1870 / Isaac Land 90
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 115
Problems of Violence, States of terror: Torture in Colonial India / Anupama
Rao 151
Punishment and the Political Body: Flogging and Colonialism in Northern
Nigeria / Steven Pierce 186
Footbinding and Anti-footbinding in China: The Subject of Pain in the
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Dorothy Ko 215
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 243
Spirit Discipline: Gender, Islam, and Hierarchies of Treatment in
Postcolonial Northern Nigeria / Susan O’Brien 273
Selections from Castaway / Yvette Christianse 303
Bibliography 317
Contributors 347
Index 349