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States of violence : war, capital punishment, and letting die
- Title
- States of violence : war, capital punishment, and letting die / edited by Austin Sarat, Jennifer L. Culbert.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 09-3197 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xi, 320 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-3197
- ISBN
- 9780521876278 (hardback)
- 0521876273 (hardback)
- 9780521699761 (pbk.)
- 0521699762 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2008046621
- OCLC
- 276228850
- Title
- States of violence : war, capital punishment, and letting die / edited by Austin Sarat, Jennifer L. Culbert.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Sarat, Austin.Culbert, Jennifer Louise.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-3197