Routine Violence

Name: Routine Violence
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 9780804752633
Price: 117.34 EUR
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Nations, Fragments, Histories

Автор: Gyanendra Pandey

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Stanford University Press

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Much has been written about the "extraordinary" violence of recent history, its brutality, and the i...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Gyanendra Pandey

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2005

страници

248

EAN

9780804752633

ISBN

080475263X

Enbook ID

04718001

Издател

Stanford University Press

Теглоt

440

Размери

152 x 229 x 19

Пълно описание

Much has been written about the "extraordinary" violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices - the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories. The book takes its material from the history of twentieth-century India: the land of Gandhi and of effective nonviolent resistance to British colonial rule. It asks questions about how particular histories are claimed as the "real" histories of a nation; how the "sacred" nation, and its ("mainstream") culture and politics, come to be constructed; and how a certain inducement to violence, and a collective amnesia regarding that violence, follow from all of this. This is the first book to engage in a sustained investigation of the routine political violence of our times.

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