Discipline and the other body correction, corporeality, colonialism.
Discipline and the other body correction, corporeality, colonialism.
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Bibliogr. : p. 317-346. Index
Discipline and the other body : humanitarianism, violence, and the colonial exception / Anupama Rao and Steven Pierce -- Defining and defiling the criminal body at the Cape of Good Hope : punishing the crime of suicide under Dutch East India Company rule, circa 1652-1795 / Kerry Ward -- The burden of Louis Congo and the evolution of savagery in colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy -- "Sinful propensities" : piracy, sodomy, and empire in the rhetoric of naval reform, 1770-1870 / Isaac Land -- The raj's other great game : policing the sexual frontiers of the Indian army in the first half of the nineteenth century / Douglas M. Peers -- Problems of violence, states of terror : torture in colonial India / Anupama Rao -- Punishment and the political body : flogging and colonialism in northern Nigeria / Steven Pierce -- Footbinding and anti-footbinding in China : the subject of pain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Dorothy Ko -- An economy of suffering : addressing the violence of discipline in railway workers' petitions to the agent of the East Indian Railway, 1930-47 / Laura Bear -- Spirit discipline : gender, Islam, and hierarchies of treatment in postcolonial northern Nigeria / Susan O'Brien -- Selections from Castaway / Yvette Christianse.
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Colonies--Administration
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Postcolonialism
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Violence
Bibliogr. : p. 317-346. Index
Discipline and the other body : humanitarianism, violence, and the colonial exception / Anupama Rao and Steven Pierce -- Defining and defiling the criminal body at the Cape of Good Hope : punishing the crime of suicide under Dutch East India Company rule, circa 1652-1795 / Kerry Ward -- The burden of Louis Congo and the evolution of savagery in colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy -- "Sinful propensities" : piracy, sodomy, and empire in the rhetoric of naval reform, 1770-1870 / Isaac Land -- The raj's other great game : policing the sexual frontiers of the Indian army in the first half of the nineteenth century / Douglas M. Peers -- Problems of violence, states of terror : torture in colonial India / Anupama Rao -- Punishment and the political body : flogging and colonialism in northern Nigeria / Steven Pierce -- Footbinding and anti-footbinding in China : the subject of pain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Dorothy Ko -- An economy of suffering : addressing the violence of discipline in railway workers' petitions to the agent of the East Indian Railway, 1930-47 / Laura Bear -- Spirit discipline : gender, Islam, and hierarchies of treatment in postcolonial northern Nigeria / Susan O'Brien -- Selections from Castaway / Yvette Christianse.
0-8223-3731-2 hardback 0-8223-3743-6 paperback
Colonies--Administration
Human rights
Postcolonialism
Punishment
Violence