Missing pieces and body parts: On bodily integrity and political violence.
While much attention is paid to what happens to dead bodies after political violence, disaster, or atrocity, less attention has been paid to body parts, despite the wide-ranging efforts, both material (often forensic) and discursive, to reconstitute or resuscitate the whole dead body. Materializing...
| Publicado en: | Death Studies Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 373 - 384 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2026
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