The penitent state exposure, mourning and the biopolitics of national healing /
This text 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?
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Main Author: | Muldoon, Paul (College teacher), |
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Other Authors: | Oxford Scholarship Online. |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2023.
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1 online resource. |
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Oxford scholarship online.
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