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States of violence:war, capital punishment, and letting die / edited by Austin Sarat, Jennifer L. Culbert

Sarat, Austin ; Culbert, Jennifer Louise

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press [©2009], 2009

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 320 pages)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: States of violence. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2009 (Druck-Ausgabe)

0-511-58074-6 (electronic bk.); 0-511-58106-8 (electronic bk.); 978-0-511-58074-1 (electronic bk.); 978-0-511-58106-9 (electronic bk.)

978-0-511-58042-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-511-58042-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-521-87627-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-521-87627-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-521-69976-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-521-69976-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-521-87627-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-521-87627-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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bisacsh: SOC 051000

LOC-SH: Capital punishment ; Electronic books ; Political violence

Political violence ; Todesstrafe ; Staatsgewalt ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Violence in Society ; Capital punishment

Introduction: Interpreting the violent state / Austin Sarat and Jennifer L. Culbert -- On the forms of state killing -- The innocuousness of state lethality in an age of national security / Robin Wagner-Pacifici -- Oedipal sovereignty and the war in Iraq / Jeremy Arnold -- Sacrifice and sovereignty / Mateo Taussig-Rubbo -- Due process and lethal confinement / Colin Dayan -- From time to torture : the hellish future of the criminal sentence / Thomas L. Dumm -- The child in the broom closet : states of killing and letting die / Elizabeth A. Povinelli -- The lethality of the Canadian state's (re)cognition of indigenous peoples / Mark Antaki and Coel Kirkby -- Investigating the discourses of death -- Death in the first person / Peter Brooks -- Open secrets, or the postscript of capital punishment / Ravit Pe'er-Lamo Reichman -- Ethical exception : capital punishment in the figure of sovereignty / Adam Thurschwell -- No mercy / Adam Sitze.

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This book calls into question the legitimacy of state uses of violence and mounts a sustained effort at interpretation, sense making, and critique