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1 online resource |
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Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 199 |
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Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 199.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 1 Introducing economies of death; 2 The currency of grief: 9/11 deaths, Afghan lives, and intimate intervention; 3 The cost of a second chance: life, death, and redemption among prison inmates and Thoroughbred ex-racehorses in Bluegrass Kentucky; 4 The administration of death: killing and letting die during the Cambodian genocide; 5 Is the Puerto Rican parrot worth saving? The biopolitics of endangerment and grievability |
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6 "Deep inside dogs know what they want": animality, affect, and killability in commercial pet foods7 Archives of death: lynching photography, animalization, biopolitics, and the lynching of William James; 8 Remains to be seen: photographing "road kill" and The Roadside Memorial Project; 9 Love, death, food, and other ghost stories: the hauntings of intimacy and violence in contemporary Peru; 10 Economies of death: an ethical framework and future directions; Index |
| Summary |
Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death examines the economic logic involved in determining whose lives and deaths come to matter and why. Drawing from eight distinct case studies focused on the killability and grievability of certain humans, animals, and environmental systems, this book advances an intersectional theory of economies of death. A key feature of late-modern capitalism is its tendency to economically order certain human and nonhuman lives and environments, while appropriating and commodifying certain bodies and spaces in the process. Spanning the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 29, 2015) |
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Death -- Economic aspects
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Grief -- Economic aspects
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Human rights.
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Animal rights.
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Human-animal relationships.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Animal rights
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Death -- Economic aspects
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Human-animal relationships
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Human rights
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Döden.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lopez, Patricia J., editor
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Gillespie, Kathryn (Kathryn A.), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317616917 |
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131761691X |
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9781315752020 |
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1315752026 |
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9781317616894 |
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1317616898 |
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9781317616900 |
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1317616901 |
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