States of violence / Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Comparative studies in society and history book seriesPublication details: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006.Description: xii, 472 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0472098934 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0472068938 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.6 22
LOC classification:
  • HM886 .S83 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : states of violence and the violence of states / Julie Skurski and Fernando Coronil -- Civilization and barbarism : cattle frontiers in Latin America / Silvio R. Ducan Baretta and John Markoff -- Afterword, 2002 / John Markoff -- Dismembering and remembering the nation : the semantics of political violence in Venezuela / Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski -- Mad Mullahs and Englishmen : discourse in the colonial encounter / David B. Edwards -- Tea talk : violent measures in the discursive practices of Sri Lanka's estate Tamils / E. Valentine Daniel -- "Better occasional murders than frequent adulteries" : discourses on banditry, violence, and sacrifice in the Mediterranean / Paul Sant Cassia -- Of crowds and empires : Afro-Asian riots and European expansion, 1857-1882 / Juan R. I. Cole -- Ethnic violence on the South African gold mines / T. Dunbar Moodie -- Violence in the big house : the limits of discipline and the spaces of resistance / Charles Bright -- Sexual violence, discursive formations, and the state / Veena Das -- Violence and vision : the prosthetics and aesthetics of terror / Allen Feldman.
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Introduction : states of violence and the violence of states / Julie Skurski and Fernando Coronil -- Civilization and barbarism : cattle frontiers in Latin America / Silvio R. Ducan Baretta and John Markoff -- Afterword, 2002 / John Markoff -- Dismembering and remembering the nation : the semantics of political violence in Venezuela / Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski -- Mad Mullahs and Englishmen : discourse in the colonial encounter / David B. Edwards -- Tea talk : violent measures in the discursive practices of Sri Lanka's estate Tamils / E. Valentine Daniel -- "Better occasional murders than frequent adulteries" : discourses on banditry, violence, and sacrifice in the Mediterranean / Paul Sant Cassia -- Of crowds and empires : Afro-Asian riots and European expansion, 1857-1882 / Juan R. I. Cole -- Ethnic violence on the South African gold mines / T. Dunbar Moodie -- Violence in the big house : the limits of discipline and the spaces of resistance / Charles Bright -- Sexual violence, discursive formations, and the state / Veena Das -- Violence and vision : the prosthetics and aesthetics of terror / Allen Feldman.

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