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A nervous state : violence, remedies, and reverie in colonial Congo / Nancy Rose Hunt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunt, Nancy Rose, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Colonies--Belgium--History.
- Medicine.
- Belgium--Colonies--Democratic Republic of the Congo--Social conditions.
- Belgium.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo--History--1908-1960.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (372 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Registers of violence
- Maria N'koi
- Emergency time
- Shock talk and flywhisks
- A penal colony, an infertility clinic
- Motion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375241
- 0822375249
- OCLC:
- 944503240
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