{"product_id":"discipline-and-the-other-body-9780822337317","title":"Discipline and the Other Body","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorians and anthropologists address instances of colonial violence from the early modern period to the twentieth century to illuminate the relationship between violence and difference underlying modern governmental powers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDiscipline and the Other Body \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a brilliant and multifaceted exploration of the ways in which colonial power worked with the human body. Covering a great variety of colonial contexts, the contributors bring to light the connections between what Michel Foucault called biopower and the lived experience of colonial violence.”—Timothy Mitchell, author of \u003ci\u003eRule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Here, finally, is a collection that forces us to think broadly and comparatively about the relationship between colonial power and the body, about the very interventions and invasions that made colonialism so embodied a practice. This volume will allow people like myself to teach colonialism in a way that bridges culture, politics, and gender in powerful ways.”—Luise White, author of \u003ci\u003eSpeaking with Vampires: Rumor and History in Colonial Africa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Discipline and the Other Body: Humanitarianism, Violence, and the Colonial Exception \/ Anupama Tao and Steven Pierce 1\u003cbr\u003e 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 36\u003cbr\u003e The Burden of Louis Congo and the Evolution of Savagery in Colonial Louisiana \/ Shannon Lee Dawdy 61\u003cbr\u003e “Sinful Propensities”: Piracy, Sodomy, and Empire in the Rhetoric of Naval Reform, 1770–1870 \/ Isaac Land 90\u003cbr\u003e 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 115\u003cbr\u003e Problems of Violence, States of terror: Torture in Colonial India \/ Anupama Rao 151\u003cbr\u003e Punishment and the Political Body: Flogging and Colonialism in Northern Nigeria \/ Steven Pierce 186\u003cbr\u003e Footbinding and Anti-footbinding in China: The Subject of Pain in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries \/ Dorothy Ko 215\u003cbr\u003e 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 243\u003cbr\u003e Spirit Discipline: Gender, Islam, and Hierarchies of Treatment in Postcolonial Northern Nigeria \/ Susan O’Brien 273\u003cbr\u003e Selections from \u003ci\u003eCastaway \/ \u003c\/i\u003eYvette Christianse 303\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 317\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 347\u003cbr\u003e Index 349\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406041260375,"sku":"9780822337317","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822337317.jpg?v=1730494341","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/discipline-and-the-other-body-9780822337317","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}