Introduction: truth, guilt, and justice in an illiberal state -- Contested space: an East European borderland before 1941 -- At the heart of darkness: wartime choices, 1941-1944 -- Post-1944: the moment of return -- Determining guilt: the Soviet politics of retribution -- Loss, …
Punishment is a topic of increasing importance for citizens and policymakers. Why should we punish criminals? Which theory of punishment is most compelling? Is the death penalty ever justified? These questions and many more are examined in this highly engaging and accessible gui…
A comparative historical and ethnographic perspective on corporeal violence, the body's emergence as a political entity in colonial and postcolonial governance, and the production of a discourse of human rights.
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 …
