Description
| Product ID: | 9780822359654 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Nervous State |
| Subtitle: | Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo |
| Authors: | Author: Nancy Rose Hunt |
| Page Count: | 376 |
| Subjects: | African history, African history, Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Southern Africa |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Duke University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Duke University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-01-08 |
