Nervous State - Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial CongoPaperback
Nervous State - Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial CongoPaperback In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold's Congo Free State. This…
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Nervous State - Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial CongoPaperback
In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold's Congo Free State. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacular healing movements. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness.
Hunt's history bursts with layers of perceptibility and song, conveying everyday surfaces and daydreams of subalterns With a heuristic of two colonial states--one "nervous," one biopolitical--the analysis alternates between medical research into birthrates, gonorrhea, and childlessness and the securitization of subaltern "therapeutic insurgencies." By the time of Belgian Congo's famed postwar developmentalist schemes, a shining infertility clinic stood near a bleak penal colony, both sited where a notorious Leopoldian rubber company once enabled rape and mutilation.
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