The politics of pain and the end of empire

International Feminist Journal of Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-81

  Philipose, Liz ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abu Ghraib; Colonialism; Emotion; Exhibition; Gender; Global; Neoliberalism; Pain; Photographs; Race; Subjectivity; Torture; Violence; War

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249886925     PISSN: 14616742     EISSN: 14684470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616740601066390     Document Type: Article

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