Formations of Violence The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland
by Allen Feldman
University of Chicago Press, 1991
Cloth: 978-0-226-24070-1 | Paper: 978-0-226-24071-8 | Electronic: 978-0-226-24080-0
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226240800.001.0001
ABOUT THIS BOOKTABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK

"A sophisticated and persuasive late-modernist political analysis that consistently draws the reader into the narratives of the author and those of the people of violence in Northern Ireland to whom he talked. . . . Simply put, this book is a feast for the intellect"—Thomas M. Wilson, American Anthropologist

"One of the best books to have been written on Northern Ireland. . . . A highly imagination and significant book. Formations of Violence is an important addition to the literature on political violence."—David E. Schmitt, American Political Science Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Artifacts and Instruments of Agency

Surfaces and Centers

Embodied Transcripts

The Politics of Narration

Origin Space

Partitions

The Interface

The Sanctuary

Paramilitaries, Populist Violence, and State Formation

The Runback

From Hardmen to Gunmen

Sensory Formations

The Butchers

Genealogies of the Dead

Stiffing

Doorsteps

Sacrificial Transfers

The Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real

The Black Man

Endocolonization

The Collectivization of Arrest

Resisting Arrest

Capture

Getting Done

Arrest and Death

Interrogation: Ceremony of Verification

The Name and the Eye

White Spaces

The Sensorium of Death

Breaking the Interrogation

Battle-proofing

Prison Regime

Criminalization

Aborted Initiations

Scatology

The Mirror

The Body as Weapon Artifact

Mechanical Bears

Techniques and Discourses of the Body

6. Eschatology

H6

The Stiff

The Lark

Biological Time, Prison Time, Historical Time

Sacrifice Doubled

A Scene of Exchange from the Gospels

Interiorizing Subjects and Objects

The Reversal of Sacrifice

Appendix 1 : Glossary

Appendix 2: Organizations Cited

Appendix 3: Republican Paramilitary Cohort

Notes

References

Index