A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo

Author/Contributor(s):	Hunt, Nancy Rose
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	01/08/2016
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Nancy Rose Hunt tells the affective history of the convergence of biopolitics and colonial violence in the Belgian Congo. By showing how the shifts and interactions between the biopolitical state and the nervous state drove the colonial government's actions toward the Congolese, Hunt provides a new model for theorizing colonialism.