Trais Pearson Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam 9781501740152

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Автор: Trais Pearson
Название: Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam
ISBN: 9781501740152
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Социология: смерть и дряхление

Политика и политический строй

Медицинский уход за пациентами

ISBN-10: 1501740156
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 252
Вес: 0.03 кг.
Дата издания: 15.03.2020
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 8 halftones, black and white
Размер: 229 x 152 x 18
Ключевые слова: Nursing,Politics & government,Sociology: death & dying, MEDICAL / Nursing / Issues,POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
Подзаголовок: The politics of death in semi-colonial siam
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Поставляется из: Англии
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By the 1890s, Siam (Thailand) was the last holdout against European imperialism in Southeast Asia. But the kingdoms exceptional status came with a substantial caveat: Bangkok, its bustling capital, was a port city that was subject to many of the same legal and fiscal constraints as other colonial treaty ports. Sovereign Necropolis offers new insight into turn-of-the-century Thai history by disinterring the forgotten stories of those who died unnatural deaths during this period and the work of the Siamese state to assert their rights in a pluralistic legal arena.

Based on a neglected cache of inquest files compiled by the Siamese Ministry of the Capital, official correspondence, and newspaper accounts, Trais Pearson documents the piecemeal introduction of new forms of legal and medical concern for the dead. He reveals that the investigation of unnatural death demanded testimony from diverse strata of society: from the unlettered masses to the king himself. These cases raised questions about how to handle the dead--were they spirits to be placated, or legal subjects whose deaths demanded compensation?--as well as questions about jurisdiction, rights, and liability.

Exhuming the history of imperial politics, transnational commerce, technology, and expertise, Sovereign Necropolis demonstrates how the states response to global flows transformed the nature of legal subjectivity and politics in lasting ways. Sovereign Necropolis is a compelling exploration of the troubling lives of the dead in a cosmopolitan treaty port, and a notable contribution to the growing corpus of studies in science, law, and society in the non-Western world.

Дополнительное описание:

Introduction
1. Bad Death
2. Indemnity and Identity
3. Treaty Port Tort
4. Accidental Metaphysics
5. Morbid Subjects
6. Incisions and Inscriptions
Conclusion
Epilogue: Spirits in a Material World

Sovereign Necropolis: The Politics of Death in Semi-Colonial Siam, Trais Pearson