| Description |
vii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 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 Politicl 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309) and index |
| Subject |
Counterinsurgency -- Northern Ireland.
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Political prisoners -- Northern Ireland -- Case studies.
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Political violence -- Northern Ireland.
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Violence -- Northern Ireland.
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| LC no. |
90047977 |
| ISBN |
0226240703 (alk. paper) |
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0226240711 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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