Discipline and the Other Body reveals the intimate relationship between violence and difference underlying modern governmental power and the human rights discourses that critique it. The comparative essays brought together in this collection show how, in using physical violence to discipline and control colonial subjects, governments repeatedly found themselves enmeshed in a fundamental paradox: Colonialism was about the management of difference--the "civilized" ruling the "uncivilized"--but colonial violence seemed to many the antithesis of civility, threatening to undermine the very...
Discipline and the Other Body reveals the intimate relationship between violence and difference underlying modern governmental power and the hu...
This well-illustrated collection uses new and interdisciplinary approaches in gender history to explore violence as a form of gendered embodiment across place and time, from the medieval world to the twenty-first century.
Uses new and interdisciplinary approaches in gender history.
Considers the issues across time, from the classical world to the twenty-first century.
Covers a wide range of locations, including Africa, China, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and Russia.
Academically and theoretically innovative.
This well-illustrated collection uses new and interdisciplinary approaches in gender history to explore violence as a form of gendered embodiment acro...
Collective political projects have become ephemeral and are subject to radical forms of erasure through cooptation, division, redefinition or intimidation in present times. "Media and Utopia" responds to the resulting crisis of the social by investigating the links between mediation and political imagination.
This volume addresses those utopian spaces historically constituted through media, and analyses the conditions that made them possible. Individual essays deal with non-Western histories of technopolitics through distinctive perspectives on how to conceive the relationship between...
Collective political projects have become ephemeral and are subject to radical forms of erasure through cooptation, division, redefinition or intim...
Touch: A Study of Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; and gives a description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch.
Touch: A Study of Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; a...
Touch: A Study of Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; and gives a description of touchability and untouchability in terms of a rhetoric and semantics of touch.
Touch: A Study of Caste attempts a break from the tradition of caste studies, using versions of phenomenology, structuralism and post-structuralism; a...
