Life, Emergent
Subtitle: The Social in the Afterlives of Violence
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781517900557
Subjects: Social conflict; Civil society; Citizenship; Humanity; Developing countries, social conditions; Political violence
Description: Challenges conventional understandings of biopolitics, weaving a politics of life through the lens of life, not death. Arguing that the "letting die" element of biopolitics has been overemphasized, Arif zeros in on "making live," highlighting the means and forms of life configured in the aftermath--or afterlives--of violent events in contexts of law, justice, community, and identity. --From publisher description.