The Social in the Afterlives of Violence
by
Yasmeen Arif
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
How does an inquiry into life as it lives (or dies) amid mass violence look like from the perspective of the “social”? Taking us from Sierra Leone to India to Lebanon, Life, Emergent challenges conventional understandings of biopolitics, weaving a politics of life through the lens of life, not death. Arguing...