Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism

by Steven Pierce and Anupama Rao

Discipline and the Other Body reveals the intimate relationship between violence and difference underlying modern governmental power and the human rights discourses that critique it. The comparative essays brought together in this collection show how, in using physical violence to discipline and control colonial subjects, governments repeatedly found themselves enmeshed in a fundamental paradox: Colonialism was about the management of difference-the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822337436
• ISBN13: 9780822337430
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"