Stepputat Governing the dead

Sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5159-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Human Remains and Violence

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stepputat, Finn

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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