| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 320 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Political violence.
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Political violence. |
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Capital punishment.
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Capital punishment. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sarat, Austin.
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Culbert, Jennifer Louise.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: States of violence. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2009 9780521876278 0521876273 (DLC) 2008046621 (OCoLC)276228850 |
| ISBN |
9780511580741 (electronic book) |
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0511580746 (electronic book) |
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9780511580420 (ebook) |
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0511580428 (ebook) |
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0521876273 (cloth) |
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9780521876278 (cloth) |
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0521699762 (paper) |
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9780521699761 (paper) |
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9780511581069 (electronic book) |
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0511581068 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
9786612302954 |
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