Missing (eBook)

Persons and Politics

Jenny Edkins (Autor)

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2011
296 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-6280-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Stories of the missing offer profound insights into the tension between how political systems see us and how we see each other. In Missing, Jenny Edkins highlights stories from a range of circumstances that shed light on this critical tension.

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Stories of the missing offer profound insights into the tension between how political systems see us and how we see each other. The search for people who go missing as a result of war, political violence, genocide, or natural disaster reveals how forms of governance that objectify the person are challenged. Contemporary political systems treat persons instrumentally, as objects to be administered rather than as singular beings: the apparatus of government recognizes categories, not people. In contrast, relatives of the missing demand that authorities focus on a particular person: families and friends are looking for someone who to them is unique and irreplaceable. In Missing, Jenny Edkins highlights stories from a range of circumstances that shed light on this critical tension: the aftermath of World War II, when millions in Europe were displaced; the period following the fall of the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan in 2001 and the bombings in London in 2005; searches for military personnel missing in action; the thousands of political disappearances in Latin America; and in more quotidian circumstances where people walk out on their families and disappear of their own volition. When someone goes missing we often find that we didn't know them as well as we thought: there is a sense in which we are missing even to our nearest and dearest and even when we are present, not absent. In this thought-provoking book, Edkins investigates what this more profound missingness might mean in political terms.

Autor

Jenny Edkins is Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. She is the author of Trauma and the Memory of Politics; Whose Hunger? Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid, and Poststructuralism and International Relations: Bringing the Political Back In. She is coeditor of several books, including Global Politics: A New Introduction.

Inhalt

Introduction
1. Missing Persons, Manhattan
2. Displaced Persons, Postwar Europe
3. Tracing Services
4. Missing Persons, London
5. Forensic Identification
6. Missing in Action
7. Disappeared, Argentina
8. Ambiguous Loss
ConclusionNotes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.9.2011
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Gewicht: 28 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: political disappearances, numbers not people, governments objectify people, military personnel MIA, aftermath, tragedy
• ISBN-10: 0-8014-6280-0 / 0801462800
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-6280-1 / 9780801462801