Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons - Couverture souple

Bargu, Banu

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ISBN 10 : 023116341X ISBN 13 : 9780231163415

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Starve and Immolate tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons. Weaving together contemporary and critical political theory with political ethnography, Banu Bargu analyzes the death fast struggle as an exemplary though not exceptional instance of self-destructive practices that are a consequence of, retort to, and refusal of the increasingly biopolitical forms of sovereign power deployed around the globe.

Bargu chronicles the experiences, rituals, values, beliefs, ideological self-representations, and contentions of the protestors who fought cellular confinement against the background of the history of Turkish democracy and the treatment of dissent in a country where prisons have become sites of political confrontation. A critical response to Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish, Starve and Immolate centers on new forms of struggle that arise from the asymmetric antagonism between the state and its contestants in the contemporary prison. Bargu ultimately positions the weaponization of life as a bleak, violent, and ambivalent form of insurgent politics that seeks to wrench the power of life and death away from the modern state on corporeal grounds and in increasingly theologized forms. Drawing attention to the existential commitment, sacrificial morality, and militant martyrdom that transforms these struggles into a complex amalgam of resistance, Bargu explores the global ramifications of human weapons' practices of resistance, their possibilities and limitations.

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À propos de l'auteur

Banu Bargu (PhD, Government, Cornell) is Associate Professor of Politics in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia, 2014), which received the First Book Prize in political theory from APSA, and the coeditor of Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser (Palgrave, 2017).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 023116341X
• ISBN 13: 9780231163415
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 512
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