A Nervous State
Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
1st Edition
Published on 30. December 2015
376 pages
978-0-8223-7524-1 (ISBN)
Description
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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Nancy Rose Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, and the author of the prizewinning A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Registers of Violence 27
2. Maria N'koi 61
3. Emergency Time 95
4. Shock Talk and Flywhisks 135
5. A Penal Colony, an Infertility Clinic 167
6. Motion 207
Conclusion. Field Coda and Other Endings 237
Notes 255
Bibliography 309
Index 343
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Registers of Violence 27
2. Maria N'koi 61
3. Emergency Time 95
4. Shock Talk and Flywhisks 135
5. A Penal Colony, an Infertility Clinic 167
6. Motion 207
Conclusion. Field Coda and Other Endings 237
Notes 255
Bibliography 309
Index 343
