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Borneman, John [Contributor]; Fontein, Joost [Contributor]; Kernaghan, Richard [Contributor]; Kristensen, Benedikte Møller [Contributor]; Kristensen, Regnar [Contributor]; Myrttinen, Henri [Contributor]; Robben, Antonius C.G.M [Contributor]; Robert, Christophe [Contributor]; Stepputat, Finn [Contributor]; Stepputat, Finn [Editor]; Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg [Contributor]; Trans, Lars Ove [Contributor]

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Governing the dead : Sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies
  • Contains: Front matter
    Contents
    List of figures
    List of tables
    List of contributors
    Series editors' foreword
    Acknowledgements
    Intro
    1 Introduction
    2 Governing the dead?
    Part I Containment and negotiation
    3 The proper funeral
    4 Dead zone
    5 Travelling corpses
    6 Claiming the dead, defining the nation
    7 Remaking the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe
    Part II Transgression
    8 Governing the disappeared-living and the disappeared-dead
    9 Dangerous corpses in Mexico's drug war
    10 Time as weather
    11 Governing through the mutilated female body
    Outro
    12 Abandonment and victory in relations with dead bodies
    Index
  • Contributor: Borneman, John [Contributor]; Fontein, Joost [Contributor]; Kernaghan, Richard [Contributor]; Kristensen, Benedikte Møller [Contributor]; Kristensen, Regnar [Contributor]; Myrttinen, Henri [Contributor]; Robben, Antonius C.G.M. [Contributor]; Robert, Christophe [Contributor]; Stepputat, Finn [Contributor]; Stepputat, Finn [Editor]; Sørensen, Ninna Nyberg [Contributor]; Trans, Lars Ove [Contributor]
  • Published: Manchester: Manchester University Press, [2020]
  • Published in: Human Remains and Violence
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource; Illustrations, black & white|Tables
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9781526151599
  • Keywords: Social sciences ; burial rituals ; critical theory ; dead bodies ; materiality ; politics ; power ; psychoanalysis ; sovereignty ; structuralist-functionalist anthropology ; transgression ; violence
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: 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
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND)