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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791784703321

Autore

Feldman Allen

Titolo

Formations of violence : the narrative of the body and political terror in Northern Ireland / / Allen Feldman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1991

ISBN

0-226-24080-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 pages)

Disciplina

303.6/09416

Soggetti

Political violence - Northern Ireland

Counterinsurgency - Northern Ireland

Political prisoners - Northern Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-309) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Artifacts and instruments of agency -- 2. Spatial formations of violence -- 3. Hardmen, gunmen, butchers, doctors, stiffs, ghosts, and black men -- 4. Being done : rites of political passage -- 5. The breaker's yard -- 6. Eschatology.

Sommario/riassunto

"A sophisticated and persuasive late-modernist political analysis that consistently draws the reader into the narratives of the author and those of the people of violence in Northern Ireland to whom he talked. . . . Simply put, this book is a feast for the intellect"-Thomas M. Wilson, American Anthropologist "One of the best books to have been written on Northern Ireland. . . . A highly imagination and significant book. Formations of Violence is an important addition to the literature on political violence."-David E. Schmitt, American Political Science Review