A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo

Nancy Rose Hunt tells the affective history of the convergence of biopolitics and colonial violence in the Belgian Congo. By showing how the shifts and interactions between the biopolitical state and the nervous state drove the colonial government's actions toward the Congolese, Hunt provides a...

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Main Author: Hunt, Nancy Rose (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina Duke University Press 2015
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:Nancy Rose Hunt tells the affective history of the convergence of biopolitics and colonial violence in the Belgian Congo. By showing how the shifts and interactions between the biopolitical state and the nervous state drove the colonial government's actions toward the Congolese, Hunt provides a new model for theorizing colonialism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (372 pages)
ISBN:9780822375241

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