Performances of violence / edited by Austin Sarat, Carleen Basler, and Thomas L. Dumm.
From acts of terrorism to war, from arson to capital punishment, from Sadism to torture, performances of violence are all around us. Sometimes they grab headlines and rivet our attention, sometimes they are barely noticed, constituting part of our taken-for-granted world. Yet whether dramatic or har...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : How does violence perform? / Carleen Basler, Thomas L. Dumm, and Austin Sarat
- Easy to be hard : conservatism and violence / Corey Robin
- Violence without agency / Ruth A. Miller
- Performing monstrous violence : Aileen Wuornos, murder, abuse, and exploitation / Mary Welek Atwell
- On the uses of dogs : Abu Ghraib and the American soul / Anne Norton
- Passionate performance : 26/11, Mumbai / Veena Das
- Ordinary violence on an extraordinary stage : incidents on the sector border in postwar Berlin / Paul Steege.