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Book synopsis

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.

Book details

• Full title: Nervous State
• Subtitle: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
• Author: Nancy Rose Hunt
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 376
• EAN: 9780822359463
• ISBN: 9780822359463
• ID: 10046550
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Weight: 658 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. January 2016

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