Governing the dead : sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Manchester University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Human remains and violence.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Finn Stepputat
- Governing the dead? Theoretical approaches / Finn Stepputat
- Part I: Containment and negotiation
- The proper funeral: death, landscape and power among the Duha Tuvinians of northern Mongolia / Benedikte Møller Kristensen
- Dead zone: pollution, contamination and the neglected dead in post-war Saigon / Christophe Robert
- Travelling corpses: negotiating sovereign claims in Oaxacan post-mortem repatriation / Lars Ove Trans
- Claiming the dead, defining the nation: contested narratives of the independence struggle in post-conflict Timor-Leste / Henri Myrttinen
- Remaking the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe / Joost Fontein
- Part II: Transgression
- Governing the disappered-living and the disappeared-dead: the violent pursuit of cultural sovereignty during authoritarian rule in Argentina / Antonius C.G.M. Robben
- Dangerous corpses in Mexico's drug war / Regnar Kristensen
- Time as weather: corpse-work in the prehistory of poltical boundaries / Richard Kernaghan
- Governing through the mutilated female body: corpse, bodypolitics and contestation in contemporary Guatemala / Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
- Outro
- Abandonment and victory in relations with dead bodies / John Borneman.