LEADER 02543nam 22003973a 450 001 9910976771303321 005 20250123130420.0 035 $a(CKB)37386043800041 035 $a(ScCtBLL)3fb8d2a0-e4ec-4a72-9f23-7bb1066b9cc2 035 $a(Perlego)2329141 035 $a(oapen)doab28587 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937386043800041 100 $a20250123i20202020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aGoverning the dead : $eSovereignty and the politics of dead bodies /$fFinn Stepputat 210 $cManchester University Press$d2020 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cManchester University Press,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 311 08$a9781526151599 311 08$a1526151596 330 $aThis book looks at sovereignty as a particular form of power and politics. It shows that the fate of bodies in the transition from life to death can provide a key to understanding fundamental ways in which sovereignty is claimed and performed. The contributions analyse (post-)conflict as well as non-conflict contexts, which too often are studied in isolation from one another. Focusing on contemporary issues rather than the equally important historical dimensions, they all grapple with the questions of who governs the dead bodies, how, why and with what effects. The book analyses how dead bodies are placed and dealt with in spaces between competing, overlapping and nested sovereign orders, under normal as well as exceptional conditions. It looks at contributions that draw on psychoanalysis, critical theory, the structuralist-functionalist anthropology of burial rituals and recent ideas of agency and materiality. The book first explains the efforts of states to contain and separate out dead bodies in particular sites. It explores the ways in which such efforts of containment are negotiated and contested in struggles between different entities that claim the dead bodies. The book then shows how entities that claim sovereignty produce effects of sovereignty by challenging and transgressing the laws regarding the legitimate use of violence and how dead bodies should be treated with dignity. 606 $aSocial Science$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial sciences 615 7$aSocial Science 615 0$aSocial sciences. 702 $aStepputat$b Finn 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910976771303321 996 $aGoverning the dead$94321593 997 $aUNINA