03731cam a2200733 4500 2720172111 TxAuBib 20260401120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781943208111 1943208115 B0C69BPQDW Amazon 05ed3929-9b8f-4095-8b53-a12c5e64778e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11022948 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Martel, James R. Unburied Bodies [Libby eBook] : Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead. Amherst College Press, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. human remains in museums. Native American remains. necropolitical violence. Robert Pogue Harrison. Political oppression. political resistance. death on the streets. Dominion of the Dead. show of state power. black lives matter. bodies on display. Ferguson uprising. Arnold Van Gennep. police brutality. rites of passage. political unrest. Philando Castile. Walter Benjamin. bodily autonomy. Social Justice. trayvon martin. state violence. social unrest. michael brown. murdered body. Kevser Eltürk. Darren Wilson. sandra bland. George Floyd. bodily power. Tom Laqueur. Banu Bargu. Antigone . polynices. trump era. Ekin Wan. HTML:The human body is the locus of meaning, personhood, and our sense of the possibility of sanctity. The desecration of the human corpse is a matter of universal revulsion, taboo in virtually all human cultures. Not least for this reason, the unburied corpse quickly becomes a focal point of political salience, on the one hand seeming to express the contempt of state power toward the basic claims of human dignity—while on the other hand simultaneously bringing into question the very legitimacy of that power. In <i>Unburied Bodies: Subversive Corpses and the Authority of the Dead,</i> James Martel surveys the power of the body left unburied to motivate resistance, to bring forth a radically new form of agency, and to undercut the authority claims made by state power. Ranging across time and space from the battlefields of ancient Thebes to the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, and taking in perspectives from such writers as Sophocles, Machiavelli, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, Judith Butler, Thomas Lacqueur, and Bonnie Honig, Martel asks why the presence of the abandoned corpse can be seen by both authorities and protesters as a source of power, and how those who have been abandoned or marginalized by structures of authority can find in a lifeless body <b>fellow accomplices</b> in their aspirations for dignity and humanity. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Sociology. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-03-31 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=05ed3929-9b8f-4095-8b53-a12c5e64778e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=05ed3929-9b8f-4095-8b53-a12c5e64778e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)