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Life and words [[electronic resource] ] : violence and the descent into the ordinary / / Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell
| Life and words [[electronic resource] ] : violence and the descent into the ordinary / / Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell |
| Autore | Das Veena |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.60954 |
| Collana | A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Riots - India - History - 20th century
Sikhs - Crimes against - India Suffering - India Violence - India |
| Soggetto non controllato |
1947
1984 anthropologists anthropology case studies collective violence contemporary thought critical analysis ethnographers ethnography fieldwork gender studies gendered violence historical history of violence human condition india indira gandhi interdisciplinary massacre of sikhs men and women nonfiction partition of india philosophical political theory sectarian conflict social science understanding violence violent cultures violent societies |
| ISBN |
9786612358401
1-282-35840-5 0-520-93953-0 1-4294-1914-8 1-60129-532-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. The Event and the Everyday -- 2. The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed -- 3. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain -- 4. The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity -- 5. Boundaries, Violence, and the Work of Time -- 6. Thinking of Time and Subjectivity -- 7. In the Region of Rumor -- 8. The Force of the Local -- 9. The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility -- 10. Three Portraits of Grief and Mourning -- 11. Revisiting Trauma, Testimony, and Political Community -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784412003321 |
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| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state / / edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others]
| Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state / / edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.60956 |
| Collana | Space and Place |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban violence - Middle East - History
Sociology, Urban - Middle East - History City and town life - Middle East - History Community life - Middle East - History Political culture - Middle East - History Petroleum industry and trade - Social aspects - Middle East - History Social change - Middle East - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
big oil cairo changing cityscape city life cityscapes contemporary politics current politics diplomacy fossil fuel historical history middle eastern history middle eastern politics nation states oil industry ottoman empire political science qajar revolutionaries sociology textbook understanding violence urban violence violence war and insurgencies wartime |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Urban Violence in the Middle East; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I - Managing and Employing Violence; Chapter 1 - Mapping and Scaling Urban Violence: The 1800 Insurrection in Cairo; Chapter 2 - A Capital Challenge: Managing Violence and Disorders in Late Ottoman Istanbul; Chapter 3 - Gendered Obscenity: Women's Tongues, Men's Phalluses and the State's Fist in the Making of Urban Norm in Interwar Egypt; Part II - Symbolic Politics of Violence; Chapter 4 - Urban Violence, the Muharram Processions and the Transformation of Iranian Urban Society: The Case of Dezful
Chapter 5 - Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman JeddahPart III - Communal Violence and its Discontents; Chapter 6 - The 1850 Uprising in Aleppo: Reconsidering the Explanatory Power of Sectarian Argumentations; Chapter 7 - The City as a Stage for a Violent Spectacle: The Massacres of Armenians in Istanbul in 1895-96; Chapter 8 - Transforming the Holy City: From Communal Clashes to Urban Violence, the Nebi Musa Riots in 1920; Part IV - Oil Cities: Spatiality and Violence; Chapter 9 - On Lines and Fences: Labour, Community and Violence in an Oil City Chapter 10 - Reading Oil as Urban Violence: Kirkuk and Its Oil Conurbation, 1927-58Chapter 11 - Structural and Physical Violence in Saudi Arabian Oil Towns, 1953-56; Afterword - Urban Injustice, Urban Violence and the Revolution: Reflections on Cairo; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788290203321 |
| New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state / / edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others]
| Urban violence in the Middle East : changing cityscapes in the transformation from empire to nation state / / edited by Ulrike Freitag, [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.60956 |
| Collana | Space and Place |
| Soggetto topico |
Urban violence - Middle East - History
Sociology, Urban - Middle East - History City and town life - Middle East - History Community life - Middle East - History Political culture - Middle East - History Petroleum industry and trade - Social aspects - Middle East - History Social change - Middle East - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
big oil cairo changing cityscape city life cityscapes contemporary politics current politics diplomacy fossil fuel historical history middle eastern history middle eastern politics nation states oil industry ottoman empire political science qajar revolutionaries sociology textbook understanding violence urban violence violence war and insurgencies wartime |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Urban Violence in the Middle East; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I - Managing and Employing Violence; Chapter 1 - Mapping and Scaling Urban Violence: The 1800 Insurrection in Cairo; Chapter 2 - A Capital Challenge: Managing Violence and Disorders in Late Ottoman Istanbul; Chapter 3 - Gendered Obscenity: Women's Tongues, Men's Phalluses and the State's Fist in the Making of Urban Norm in Interwar Egypt; Part II - Symbolic Politics of Violence; Chapter 4 - Urban Violence, the Muharram Processions and the Transformation of Iranian Urban Society: The Case of Dezful
Chapter 5 - Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman JeddahPart III - Communal Violence and its Discontents; Chapter 6 - The 1850 Uprising in Aleppo: Reconsidering the Explanatory Power of Sectarian Argumentations; Chapter 7 - The City as a Stage for a Violent Spectacle: The Massacres of Armenians in Istanbul in 1895-96; Chapter 8 - Transforming the Holy City: From Communal Clashes to Urban Violence, the Nebi Musa Riots in 1920; Part IV - Oil Cities: Spatiality and Violence; Chapter 9 - On Lines and Fences: Labour, Community and Violence in an Oil City Chapter 10 - Reading Oil as Urban Violence: Kirkuk and Its Oil Conurbation, 1927-58Chapter 11 - Structural and Physical Violence in Saudi Arabian Oil Towns, 1953-56; Afterword - Urban Injustice, Urban Violence and the Revolution: Reflections on Cairo; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828487003321 |
| New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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