| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 320 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
This book calls into question the legitimacy of state uses of violence and mounts a sustained effort at interpretation, sense making, and critique |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Political violence.
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Capital punishment.
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terrorism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
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Capital punishment
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Political violence
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Todesstrafe
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Staatsgewalt
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sarat, Austin
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Culbert, Jennifer Louise
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| ISBN |
9780511580741 |
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0511580746 |
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9780511580420 |
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0511580428 |
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0521876273 |
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9780521876278 |
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0521699762 |
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9780521699761 |
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9780511581069 |
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0511581068 |
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