The cultural lives of capital punishment : comparative perspectives /
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| Imprint: | Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005. |
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| Description: | xiv, 342 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5787221 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- 1. Putting Culture into the Picture: Toward a Comparative Analysis of State Killings
- Part I. Civilization and Punishment: Self and Other in Europe and the Americas
- 2. Nineteenth-Century Executions as Performances of Law, Death, and Civilization
- 3. Seed of Abolition: Experience and Culture in the Desire to End Capital Punishment in Mexico, 1841-1857
- 4. The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment in the United States
- 5. European Identity and the Mission Against the Death Penalty in the United States
- 6. Crime and Punishment/Self versus Other: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in European and American Film
- 7. Capital Punishment in Poland: An Aspect of the "Cultural Life" of Death Penalty Discourse
- Part II. State Killing and State Violence in Central and South Asia and the Middle East
- 8. Capital Punishment in Kyrgyzstan: Between the Past, "Other" State Killings and Social Demands
- 9. Death and the Nation: State Killing in India
- 10. Imagining the Death Penalty in Israel: Punishment, Violence, Vengeance, and Revenge
- 11. The Palestinian Culture of Death: Shariah and Siyasah-Justice, Political Power, and Capital Punishment in the Palestinian National Authority
- Part III. Paternal States, "Asian Values," and Visions of Social Order: Capital Punishment in East and Southeast Asia
- 12. The Death Penalty in Japan: Secrecy, Silence, and Salience
- 13. What Is Wrong with Capital Punishment? Official and Unofficial Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment in Modern and Contemporary China
- 14. Capital Punishment and the Culture of Developmentalism in Singapore
- 15. Ending State Killing in South Korea: Challenging the Asian Capital Punishment Status Quo