In this highly original work, Robert Desjarlais and Khalil Habrih present a dialogic account of the lingering effects of the terroristic attacks that occurred in Paris in November 2015. Situating the events within broader histories of state violence in metropolitan France and its colonial geographies, the authors interweave narrative accounts and photographs to explore a range of related phenomena: governmental and journalistic discourses on terrorism, the political work of archives, police and military apparatuses of control and anti-terror deterrence, the histories of wounds, and the haunting reverberations of violence in a plurality of lives and deaths. Traces of Violence is a moving work that aids our understanding of the afterlife of violence and offers an innovative example of collaborative writing across anthropology and sociology.
By:
Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais,
Khalil Habrih
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780520382459
ISBN 10: 0520382455
Pages: 316
Publication Date: 30 November 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"List of illustrations Note on transcription of Arabic terms Avant-propos: A guide to reading Traces of Violence Preface: Blue flight terminal Counter-preface: Blues, flights, beginnings . . . 1 • Névralgique Interruption: Neuralgia in the Goutte d’Or 2 • Graffs Interruption: Graffiti, traces, and disappearance 3 • Operation vigilance Interruption: ""Vigilance is double-edged, to say the least"" 4 • Learning with the body Interruption: Give me your FAMAS 5 • Archive sorrow Interruption: Listen to the passing of time 6 • A trace is the mark of something not there Interruption: 3alesh? Why? 7 • ""Where wounds are barely scarred over one is cut anew"" Interruption: Paris is an apparition, sharing visions 8 • The histories of these wounds Interruption: Nervous activity Acknowledgments Glossary Notes References Index"
Robert Desjarlais teaches anthropology at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. He is the author of numerous books, including Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World and The Blind Man: A Phantasmography. Khalil Habrih is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Ottawa.
