A Nervous State

Klappentext Nancy Rose Hunt is Professor of History at the University of Michigan, and the author of the prizewinning A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo, also published by Duke University Press. Zusammenfassung 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.

Zusammenfassung
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.

Inhalt
Abbreviations ix

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

1. Registers of Violence 27

2. Maria N'koi 61

3. Emergency Time 95

4. Shock Talk and Flywhisks 135

5. A Penal Colony, an Infertility Clinic 167

6. Motion 207

Conclusion. Field Coda and Other Endings 237

Notes 255

Bibliography 309

Index 343

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