Special Issue Discipline And The Other Body
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: 158 |
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: 2001 |
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: OCLC:915501194 |
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: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Special Issue: Discipline and the Other Body by :
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: Anupama Rao |
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: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 366 |
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: 2006-05-03 |
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: 9780822387930 |
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: 082238793X |
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: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Discipline and the Other Body by : Anupama Rao
Discipline and the Other Body reveals the intimate relationship between violence and difference underlying modern governmental power and the human rights discourses that critique it. The comparative essays brought together in this collection show how, in using physical violence to discipline and control colonial subjects, governments repeatedly found themselves enmeshed in a fundamental paradox: Colonialism was about the management of difference—the “civilized” ruling the “uncivilized”—but colonial violence seemed to many the antithesis of civility, threatening to undermine the very distinction that validated its use. Violation of the bodies of colonial subjects regularly generated scandals, and eventually led to humanitarian initiatives, ultimately changing conceptions of “the human” and helping to constitute modern forms of human rights discourse. Colonial violence and discipline also played a crucial role in hardening modern categories of difference—race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion. The contributors, who include both historians and anthropologists, address instances of colonial violence from the early modern period to the twentieth century and from Asia to Africa to North America. They consider diverse topics, from the interactions of race, law, and violence in colonial Louisiana to British attempts to regulate sex and marriage in the Indian army in the early nineteenth century. They examine the political dilemmas raised by the extensive use of torture in colonial India and the ways that British colonizers flogged Nigerians based on beliefs that different ethnic and religious affiliations corresponded to different degrees of social evolution and levels of susceptibility to physical pain. An essay on how contemporary Sufi healers deploy bodily violence to maintain sexual and religious hierarchies in postcolonial northern Nigeria makes it clear that the state is not the only enforcer of disciplinary regimes based on ideas of difference. Contributors. Laura Bear, Yvette Christiansë, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Dorothy Ko, Isaac Land, Susan O’Brien, Douglas M. Peers, Steven Pierce, Anupama Rao, Kerry Ward
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: Steven Pierce |
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: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 374 |
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: 2006-05-03 |
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: 0822337436 |
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: 9780822337430 |
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: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Discipline and the Other Body by : Steven Pierce
DIVA 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./div
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: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
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: 2007-07-18 |
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: 0804768412 |
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: 9780804768412 |
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: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment by :
This is a collection of essays critically examining the historical development of the modern criminal law.
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: E. Castelli |
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: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 239 |
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: 2004-11-26 |
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: 9781403981561 |
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: 1403981566 |
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: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interventions by : E. Castelli
This collection brings together top scholars to discuss the significance of violence from a global perspective and the intersections between the global structures of violence and more localized and intimate forms of violence. Activists and academics consider questions such as; are there situations in which violence should be politically supported? Are non-violent or anti-war movements in the US able to effectively respond to violence? Do we need to rethink our understanding of both 'religion' and 'secularism' in light of the current world situation? Have new paradigms been developed in response to violence? The essays in this collection offer inclusive analysis of particular situations and creative alternatives to the omnipresence of violence.
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: Diana Paton |
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: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 309 |
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: 2004-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822386148 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822386143 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis No Bond but the Law by : Diana Paton
Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination of slaveholders’ legal right to use violence—which they defined as “punishment”—against those they had held as slaves. Paton argues that, while slave emancipation involved major changes in the organization and representation of punishment, there was no straightforward transition from corporal punishment to the prison or from privately inflicted to state-controlled punishment. Contesting the dichotomous understanding of pre-modern and modern modes of power that currently dominates the historiography of punishment, she offers critical readings of influential theories of power and resistance, including those of Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, and Ranajit Guha. No Bond but the Law reveals the longstanding and intimate relationship between state formation and private punishment. The construction of a dense, state-organized system of prisons began not with emancipation but at the peak of slave-based wealth in Jamaica, in the 1780s. Jamaica provided the paradigmatic case for British observers imagining and evaluating the emancipation process. Paton’s analysis moves between imperial processes on the one hand and Jamaican specificities on the other, within a framework comparing developments regarding punishment in Jamaica with those in the U.S. South and elsewhere. Emphasizing the gendered nature of penal policy and practice throughout the emancipation period, Paton is attentive to the ways in which the actions of ordinary Jamaicans and, in particular, of women prisoners, shaped state decisions.
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: Saurabh Dube |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2004-03-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822333376 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822333371 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stitches on Time by : Saurabh Dube
DIVA critical analysis of histories and anthropologies of South Asia, seen in relation to the subaltern studies project, and several examples of how colonial history might be done differently./div
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: Austin Sarat |
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: Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
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: 2011-08-03 |
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: 9781780522524 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1780522525 |
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: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Special Issue: Human Rights by : Austin Sarat
Presents advanced scholarship on human rights. This work examines both the theoretical dimensions and dilemmas of human rights in the modern world and particular cases in which the problems and possibilities of human rights are examined.
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Total Pages |
: 470 |
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: 2001 |
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: IND:30000093073538 |
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: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis ALA Bulletin by :
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: Gary W. Peterson |
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: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 903 |
Release |
: 2012-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781461439875 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1461439876 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Handbook of Marriage and the Family by : Gary W. Peterson
The third edition of Handbook of Marriage and the Family describes, analyzes, synthesizes, and critiques the current research and theory about family relationships, family structural variations, and the role of families in society. This updated Handbook provides the most comprehensive state-of-the art assessment of the existing knowledge of family life, with particular attention to variations due to gender, socioeconomic, race, ethnic, cultural, and life-style diversity. The Handbook also aims to provide the best synthesis of our existing scholarship on families that will be a primary source for scholars and professionals but also serve as the primary graduate text for graduate courses on family relationships and the roles of families in society. In addition, the involvement of chapter authors from a variety of fields including family psychology, family sociology, child development, family studies, public health, and family therapy, gives the Handbook a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary framework.