Format:
Online Ressource (xiv, 342 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1423749537
,
9781423749530
,
9780804752336
,
0804752338
,
9780804752343
,
0804752346
Content:
1.Putting culture into the picture : toward a comparative analysis of state killing /Christian Boulanger and Austin Sarat --pt. ICivilization and punishment : self and other in Europe and Americas--2.Nineteenth-century executions as performances of law, death, and civilization /Jürgen Martschukat --3.Seed of abolition : experience and culture in the desire to end capital punishment in Mexico, 1841-1857 /Patrick Timmons --4.Cultural lives of capital punishment in the United States /Judith Randle --5.European identity and the mission against the death penalty in the United States /Evi Girling --6.Crime and punishment, self versus other : the cultural life of capital punishment in European and American film /Louise Tyler --7.Capital punishment in Poland : an aspect of the "cultural life" of the death penalty discourse /Agata Fijalkowski.
Content:
pt. IIState 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 /Botagoz Kassymbekova --9.Death and the nation : state killing in India /Julia Eckert --10.Imagining the death penalty in Israel : punishment, violence, vengeance, and revenge /Shai J. Lavi --11.Palestinian culture of death : Shariah and Siyasah ; justice, political power, and capital punishment in the Palestinian National Authority /Judith Mendelsohn Rood --12.Death penalty in Japan : secrecy, silence, and salience /David T. Johnson --13.What is wrong with capital punishment? : official and unofficial attitudes toward capital punishment in modern and contemporary China /Virgil K.Y. Ho --14.Capital punishment and the culture of developmentalism in Singapore /Alfred Oehlers and Nicole Tarulevicz --15.Ending state killing in South Korea : challenging the Asian capital punishment status quo /Sangmin Bae.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
9780804752336
Additional Edition:
0804752338
Additional Edition:
9780804752343
Additional Edition:
0804752346
Additional Edition:
0804752338
Additional Edition:
0804752346
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cultural lives of capital punishment Stanford, Calif : Stanford University Press, 2005
Language:
English
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