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Life, Emergent - The Social in the Afterlives of Violence (Hardcover)
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Life, Emergent - The Social in the Afterlives of Violence (Hardcover)
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How does an inquiry into life as it lives (or dies) amid mass
violence look like from the perspective of the "social"? Taking us
from Sierra Leone to India to Lebanon, Life, Emergent challenges
conventional understandings of biopolitics, weaving a politics of
life through the lens of life, not death. Arguing that the "letting
die" element of biopolitics has been overemphasized, Yasmeen Arif
zeros in on biopolitics' other pole: "making live." She does so by
highlighting the various means and the forms of life configured in
the aftermath-or afterlives-of violent events in contexts of law,
justice, community, and identity. Her analysis of the social
repercussions is both global and local in scope. Arif examines the
convictions made in the Special Court of Sierra Leone, the first
hybrid court of its nature under international criminal law. Next,
she explores the making of a justice movement in the context of
Hindu-Muslim violence in 2002 in the state of Gujarat, India. From
there she revisits the Sikh carnage in Delhi of 1984. Finally, she
explores a span of civil violence in Lebanon, and particularly, its
effects on the city of Beirut. This rigorously argued book brings
together the various strands of life and the social that each
chapter has disentangled-and in doing so it begins to frame a
politics of, and in, life.
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