Formations of Violence
The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland
1st Edition
Published on 14. March 2008
333 pages
978-0-226-24080-0 (ISBN)
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",A sophisticated and persuasive late-modernist political analysis that consistently draws the reader into the narratives of the author and those of the people of violence in Northern Ireland to whom he talked. . . . Simply put, this book is a feast for the intellect",-Thomas M. Wilson, American Anthropologist",One of the best books to have been written on Northern Ireland. . . . A highly imagination and significant book. Formations of Violence is an important addition to the literature on political violence.",-David E. Schmitt, American Political Science Review
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Allen Feldman
Formations of Violence
The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland
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08/1991
University of Chicago Press
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Allen Feldman
Formations of Violence
The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland
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08/1991
University of Chicago Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. Artifacts and Instruments of Agency
- Surfaces and Centers
- Embodied Transcripts
- Map of the Book
- The Politics of Narration
- 2. Spatial Formations of Violence
- Origin Space
- Partitions
- The Interface
- The Sanctuary
- Paramilitaries, Populist Violence, and State Formation
- The Runback
- 3. Hardmen, Gunmen, Butchers, Doctors, Stiffs, Ghosts, and Black Men
- From Hardmen to Gunmen
- Sensory Formations
- The Butchers
- Genealogies of the Dead
- Stiffing
- Doorsteps
- Sacrificial Transfers
- The Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real
- The Black Man
- 4. Being Done: Rites of Political Passage
- Endocolonization
- The Collectivization of Arrest
- Resisting Arrest
- Capture
- Getting Done
- Arrest and Death
- Interrogation: Ceremony of Verification
- The Name and the Eye
- White Spaces
- The Sensorium of Death
- Breaking the Interrogation
- Battle-proofing
- 5. The Breaker's Yard
- Prison Regime
- Criminalization
- Aborted Initiations
- Scatology
- The Mirror
- The Body as Weapon Artifact
- Mechanical Bears
- Techniques and Discourses of the Body
- 6. Eschatology
- H6
- The Stiff
- The Lark
- Biological Time, Prison Time, Historical Time
- Sacrifice Doubled
- A Scene of Exchange from the Gospels
- Interiorizing Subjects and Objects
- The Reversal of Sacrifice
- Appendix 1 : Glossary
- Appendix 2: Organizations Cited
- Appendix 3: Republican Paramilitary Cohort
- Notes
- References
- Index
