Governing the Dead: Sovereignty and the Politics of Dead Bodies

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In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relationship between bodies and sovereignty, Governing the dead explores how, by whom and with what effects dead bodies are governed in conflict and non-conflict contexts across the world, including an analys

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'This is an important, original, diverse collection of studies that broach the boundaries and intersections between the private and the public, between grieving and governing, and between nature, humanity and the state.'
Ben Kiernan, Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, and author of Blood and Soil

This volume suggests both a cutting edge conceptual toolbox as well as an exceptionally wide range of case studies, both practically pioneering and research-field defining. I am sure that the volume, and Stepputat's theoretical discussion in particular will become a classic reference as well as a must-include item in university syllabi.
Yehonatan Alsheh, University of the Free State

a significant contribution in death studies as well as in governance studies.
Lotte Meinert, Aarhus University, Denmark

Author Bio

Finn Stepputat is Senior Researcher in Peace, Risk and Violence at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)