Governing the dead (eBook, PDF)

Sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies
Redaktion: Stepputat, Finn

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Produktbeschreibung

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. 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-conflict contexts across the world, including an analysis of the struggles over 'proper burials'; the repatriation of dead migrants; abandoned cemeteries; exhumations; 'feminicide'; the protection of dead drug-lords; and the disappeared dead. Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains, this volume suggests that the management of dead bodies is related to the constitution and membership of states and non-state entities that claim autonomy and impunity. This volume is a significant contribution to studies of death, power and politics. It will be useful at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in anthropology, sociology, law, criminology, political science, international relations, genocide studies, history, cultural studies and philosophy. The research program leading to publication has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n° 283-617.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526151599
• Artikelnr.: 62168037

Autorenporträt

Finn Stepputat is Senior Researcher in Peace, Risk and Violence at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)

Inhaltsangabe

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