Governing the dead : Sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies /: Sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Finn Stepputat.
• Editors: Stepputat, Finn
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: s.l. : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 p.)
• Subjects: 344.045; Social sciences; Social Science; Social sciences; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526151599; 1526151596
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