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10%OFFNancy Rose Hunt - A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo - 9780822359654 - V9780822359654
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A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo

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Description for A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 376 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFM; HBJH; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold's Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacular healing movements. With a heuristic of two colonial states-one nervous, one biopolitical-the analysis alternates between medical research into birthrates, gonorrhea, and childlessness and the securitization of subaltern therapeutic insurgencies. By the time of Belgian Congo's famed postwar developmentalist schemes, a shining infertility clinic stood near a bleak penal colony, both sited where a ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822359654
SKU
V9780822359654
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99-50

About Nancy Rose Hunt
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.

Reviews for A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo
Nancy Rose Hunt's A Nervous State represents a pioneering work in African history, which will surely become a staple in advancing new frontiers for other narratives in the continent's history.
Ben Weiss
African Studies Review
In contrast to much popular work on the Congo, this book rejects using catastrophe and crisis as the main narratives ... Read more

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