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Duke University Press A Nervous State: Violence & Reverie in Colonial Congo

Name: A Nervous State: Violence & Reverie in Colonial Congo
Brand: Duke University Press
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A Nervous State by Nancy Rose Hunt examines the psychological and social impacts of violence in King Leopold's Congo Free State through a fresh historical lens. Rather than treating colonial harm as pure catastrophe, Hunt traces how nervousness permeated medical investigations, security operations, and local healing practices across the territory. The book contrasts two colonial frameworks-a "nervous" state shaped by anxiety and instability against a biopolitical one focused on population control-and alternates between detailed analysis of medical research into birthrates, gonorrhea, and infertility and the emergence of subaltern "therapeutic insurgencies" that resisted colonial authority. Published by Duke University Press, this scholarly work reconstructs how Africans and colonials navigated trauma, illness, and recovery in one of history's most violent colonial projects, offering insights into the lasting legacies of colonial medicine and the ingenious ways communities developed their own remedies and resistance strategies.

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A Nervous State examines colonial violence and its psychological aftermath in King Leopold's Congo Free State through medical and social history.

Hunt analyses the intersection of colonial medicine, security operations, and vernacular healing movements that shaped everyday life in the territory.

The book contrasts two colonial states-one nervous and unstable, the other biopolitical-to explain different systems of control and their effects.

Medical research into birthrates, gonorrhea, and childlessness reveals how the coloniser attempted to manage African populations through scientific investigation.

Published by Duke University Press, the work documents subaltern therapeutic insurgencies and how colonised peoples created their own remedies and resistance.

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Brand: Duke University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0822359464
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 08 January 2016
Listed Since: 21 February 2015

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