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The Penitent State
Exposure, Mourning and the Biopolitics of National Healing
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- USD 109.99
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- USD 109.99
Descripción editorial
This book asks a deceptively simple question: what are states actually doing when they do penance for past injustices? Why are these penitential gestures - especially the gesture of apology - becoming so ubiquitous and what implications do they carry for the way power is exercised?