Starve and Immolate - The Politics of Human Weapons

Tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons.

List of contents

AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: The Death Fast Struggle and the Weaponization of Life1. Biosovereignty and Necroresistance2. Crisis of Sovereignty3. The Biosovereign Assemblage and Its Tactics4. Prisoners in Revolt5. Marxism6. Contentions Within NecroresistanceConclusion: From Chains to BodiesNotesBibliographyIndex9/18/2013 06_barg16340_00_toc.doc: 1

About the author

Banu Bargu is associate professor of politics at the New School.

Summary

Tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons.

Product details

• Authors: Banu Bargu, Banu (New School for Social Research) Bargu, Bargu Banu
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.2014
• EAN: 9780231163408
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16340-8
• No. of pages: 512
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory; New Directions in Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, social and political philosophy, Middle Eastern history, Political ideologies and movements