MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2008046621
003 DLC
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008 081104s2009 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008046621
020 $a9780521876278 (hardback)
020 $a9780521699761 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aHN90.V5$bS8324 2009
082 00 $a303.601$222
245 00 $aStates of violence :$bwar, capital punishment, and letting die /$cedited by Austin Sarat, Jennifer Culbert.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2009.
263 $a0904
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a"Introduction: Interpreting the violent state" / Austin Sarat and Jennifer Culbert -- On the forms of state killing -- The innocuousness of state lethality in an age of national security / Robin Wagner-Pacifici -- Oedipal sovereignty / Jeremy Arnold -- Consecrating violence / 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 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 Reichman -- Ethical exception : capital punishment in the figure of sovereignty / Adam Thurschwell -- No mercy / Adam Sitze.
650 0 $aPolitical violence.
650 0 $aCapital punishment.
700 1 $aSarat, Austin.
700 1 $aCulbert, Jennifer Louise.