LEADER 04149nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910457771003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0564-4 010 $a0-8014-6280-0 010 $a0-8014-6279-7 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462795 035 $a(CKB)2550000000054732 035 $a(OCoLC)757827319 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10497726 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000539178 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11362619 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000539178 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10568560 035 $a(PQKB)10766086 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001499154 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138247 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28768 035 $a(DE-B1597)478399 035 $a(OCoLC)979575521 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462795 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138247 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10497726 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681778 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000054732 100 $a20110524d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMissing$b[electronic resource] $epersons and politics /$fJenny Edkins 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (295 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50496-2 311 $a0-8014-5029-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMissing persons, Manhattan -- Displaced persons, postwar Europe -- Tracing services -- Missing persons, London -- Forensic identification -- Missing in action -- Disappeared, Argentina -- Ambiguous loss. 330 $aStories of the missing offer profound insights into the tension between how political systems see us and how we see each other. The search for people who go missing as a result of war, political violence, genocide, or natural disaster reveals how forms of governance that objectify the person are challenged. Contemporary political systems treat persons instrumentally, as objects to be administered rather than as singular beings: the apparatus of government recognizes categories, not people. In contrast, relatives of the missing demand that authorities focus on a particular person: families and friends are looking for someone who to them is unique and irreplaceable.In Missing, Jenny Edkins highlights stories from a range of circumstances that shed light on this critical tension: the aftermath of World War II, when millions in Europe were displaced; the period following the fall of the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan in 2001 and the bombings in London in 2005; searches for military personnel missing in action; the thousands of political "disappearances" in Latin America; and in more "idian circumstances where people walk out on their families and disappear of their own volition. When someone goes missing we often find that we didn't know them as well as we thought: there is a sense in which we are "missing" even to our nearest and dearest and even when we are present, not absent. In this thought-provoking book, Edkins investigates what this more profound "missingness" might mean in political terms. 606 $aMissing persons$xIdentification$xPolitical aspects 606 $aMass casualties$xIdentification$xPolitical aspects 606 $aDead$xIdentification$xPolitical aspects 606 $aMissing in action$xIdentification$xPolitical aspects 606 $aDisappeared persons$xIdentification$xPolitical aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMissing persons$xIdentification$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aMass casualties$xIdentification$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aDead$xIdentification$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aMissing in action$xIdentification$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aDisappeared persons$xIdentification$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a362.87 686 $aMS 3300$2rvk 700 $aEdkins$b Jenny$0863060 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457771003321 996 $aMissing$92451036 997 $aUNINA