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Beschreibung
Vita is a dumpsite of human beings. Cut off from family, the mentally ill and sick, unemployed and homeless, young and old are left to die. In Vita, the unwanted become unknowables, have no civil rights or accountability, and it is virtually guaranteed that their conditions will not improve. The book focuses on how the production of social death is experienced by the abandoned themselves. It's narrative is structured around a young women named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed, and who was said to be mad and to have no known origins.
Vita is a dumpsite of human beings. Cut off from family, the mentally ill and sick, unemployed and homeless, young and old are left to die. In Vita, the unwanted become unknowables, have no civil rights or accountability, and it is virtually guaranteed that their conditions will not improve. The book focuses on how the production of social death is experienced by the abandoned themselves. It's narrative is structured around a young women named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed, and who was said to be mad and to have no known origins.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780520272958
ISBN-10: 0520272951
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Joao Biehl
Kamera: Eskerod, Torben
Auflage: 2nd revidierte ed.
Hersteller: University of California Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Abbildungen: w. 30 ill.
Maße: 227 x 152 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Joao Biehl
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.11.2013
Gewicht: 0,678 kg
Artikel-ID: 106645301