Hunt A Nervous State

Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7524-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hunt, Nancy Rose

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.