States of violence
Subtitle: war, capital punishment, and letting die
By: edited by Austin Sarat, Jennifer Culbert.
Contributors: Sarat, Austin.; Culbert, Jennifer Louise.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521876278; 9780521699761
Subjects: Political violence; Capital punishment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Introduction: Interpreting the violent state" / Austin Sarat and Jennifer Culbert; title: On the forms of state killing; title: The innocuousness of state lethality in an age of national security / Robin Wagner-Pacifici; title: Oedipal sovereignty / Jeremy Arnold; title: Consecrating violence / Mateo Taussig-Rubbo; title: Due process and lethal confinement / Colin Dayan; title: From time to torture : the hellish future of the criminal sentence / Thomas L. Dumm; title: The child in the broom closet : states of killing and letting die / Elizabeth Povinelli; title: The lethality of the Canadian state's (re)cognition of indigenous peoples / Mark Antaki and Coel Kirkby; title: Investigating the discourses of death; title: Death in the first person / Peter Brooks; title: Open secrets or the postscript of capital punishment / Ravit Reichman; title: Ethical exception : capital punishment in the figure of sovereignty / Adam Thurschwell; title: No mercy / Adam Sitze.