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Nervous State - Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Nancy Rose Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, and the author of the prizewinning A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo, also published by Duke University Press.  Klappentext Nancy Rose Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, and the author of the prizewinning A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo, also published by Duke University Press.¿ Zusammenfassung Nancy Rose Hunt tells the affective history of the convergence of biopolitics and colonial violence in the Belgian Congo. By showing how the shifts and interactions between the biopolitical state and the nervous state drove the colonial government's actions toward the Congolese! Hunt provides a new model for theorizing colonialism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations  ix Acknowledgments  xi Introduction  1 1. Registers of Violence  27 2. Maria N'koi  61 3. Emergency Time  95 4. Shock Talk and Flywhisks  135 5. A Penal Colony, an Infertility Clinic  167 6. Motion  207 Conclusion. Field Coda and Other Endings  237 Notes  255 Bibliography  309 Index  343

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Authors Nancy Rose Hunt
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.01.2016
 
EAN 9780822359463
ISBN 978-0-8223-5946-3
No. of pages 376
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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