Steven Pierce / Anupama Rao

Gebundenes Buch

Discipline and the Other Body

Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism

Herausgeber: Rao, Anupama; Pierce, Steven

Beschreibung

A comparative historical and ethnographic perspective on corporeal violence, the body's emergence as a political entity in colonial and postcolonial governance, and the production of a discourse of human rights.

Autor

Steven Pierce is Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial History at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination. Anupama Rao is Assistant Professor of History at Barnard College. She is the editor of Gender and Caste: Contemporary Issues in Indian Feminism and a coeditor of Violence, Vulnerability, and Embodiment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337317
• ISBN-10: 0822337312
• Artikelnr.: 21098037