The cultural lives of capital punishment
Subtitle: comparative perspectives
By: edited by Austin Sarat and Christian Boulanger.
Contributors: Sarat, Austin.; Boulanger, Christian.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780804752343; 9780804752336
Subjects: Capital punishment -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Putting culture into the picture : toward a comparative analysis of state killing -- Christian Boulanger and Austin Sarat -- pt. I; title: Civilization and punishment : self and other in Europe and the Americas-- -- 2.; title: Nineteenth-century executions as performances of law, death, and civilization -- Jürgen Martschukat -- 3.; title: Seed of abolition : experience and culture in the desire to end capital punishment in Mexico, 1841-1857 -- Patrick Timmons -- 4.; title: Cultural lives of capital punishment in the United States -- Judith Randle -- 5.; title: European identity and the mission against the death penalty in the United States -- Evi Girling -- 6.; title: Crime and punishment, self versus other : the cultural life of capital punishment in European and American film -- Louise Tyler -- 7.; title: Capital punishment in Poland : an aspect of the "cultural life" of the death penalty discourse-- Agata Fijalkowski; title: pt. II; title: State killing and state violence in central and south Asia and the Middle East -- -- 8.; title: Capital punishment in Kyrgyzstan : between the past, "other" state killings and social demands -- Botagoz Kassymbekova -- 9.; title: Death and the nation : state killing in India -- Julia Eckert -- 10.; title: Imagining the death penalty in Israel : punishment, violence, vengeance, and revenge -- Shai J. Lavi -- 11.; title: Palestinian culture of death : Shariah and Siyasah ; justice, political power, and capital punishment in the Palestinian National Authority -- Judith Mendelsohn Rood -- pt. III; title: Paternal states, "asian values," and visions of social order : capital punishment in East and Southeast Asia -- -- 12.; title: Death penalty in Japan : secrecy, silence, and salience -- David T. Johnson -- 13.; title: What is wrong with capital punishment? : official and unofficial attitudes toward capital punishment in modern and contemporary China -- Virgil K.Y. Ho -- 14.; title: Capital punishment and the culture of developmentalism in Singapore -- Alfred Oehlers and Nicole Tarulevicz -- 15.; title: Ending state killing in South Korea : challenging the Asian capital punishment status quo-- Sangmin Bae.