States of Violence

War, Capital Punishment, and Letting Die
Herausgeber: Sarat, Austin; Culbert, Jennifer L

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Produktbeschreibung

This book calls into question the legitimacy of state uses of violence and mounts a sustained effort at interpretation, sense making, and critique.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780521699761
• ISBN-10: 0521699762
• Artikelnr.: 26104100

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: interpreting the violent state Austin Sarat and Jennifer
Culbert; Part I. On the Forms of State Killing: 2. The innocuousness of
state lethality in an age of national security Robin Wagner-Pacifici; 3.
Oedipal sovereignty Jeremy Arnold; 4. Consecrating violence Mateo
Taussig-Rubbo; 5. Due process and lethal confinement Colin Dayan; 6. From
time to torture: the hellish future of the criminal sentence Thomas L.
Dumm; 7. The child in the broom closet: states of killing and letting die
Elizabeth Povinelli; 8. Canadian state lethality towards indigenous peoples
Mark Antaki and Coel Kirkby; Part II. Investigating the Discourses of
Death: 9. Death in the first person Peter Brooks; 10. Open secrets or, the
postscript of capital punishment Ravit Reichman; 11. Ethical exception:
capital punishment in the figure of sovereignty Adam Thurschwell; 12. No
mercy Adam Sitze.