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Nightmare Remains: The Politics of Mourning and Epistemologies of Disappearance

by Ege Selin Islekel
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780810147485
  • Binding: Paperback
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  • Publisher: Northwestern University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Northwestern University Press
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  • Pages: 192
  • Original Price: USD 32.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 200 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Political

Offering a political epistemology of collective mourning

Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin America, Ege Selin Islekel argues that a political technology of mourning is fundamental to contemporary politics. This technology of necrosovereignty shapes not only individuals' and populations' lives but also their epistemic and political afterlives. Local practices of mourning, however, contain resistant capacities, opening alternative ways of knowing, remembering, and assembling. "Nightmare knowledges," Islekel posits, are resistant modes of knowing tied up with grief that challenge the contemporary politics of death and those politics' archival boundaries. Seen in mothers' movements across the globe, from the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo of Argentina to the Saturday Mothers of Turkey, nightmare knowledges produce counterarchives that mobilize traditionally ignored epistemic categories.

Nightmare Remains forges a new dialogue between post-Foucauldian political theory and decolonial thought and brings a fresh critical perspective to the theoretical discourse of enforced disappearances.

EGE SELIN ISLEKEL is an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. She is the coeditor of The Biopolitics of Punishment: Derrida and Foucault (Northwestern University Press).

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