Table of contents:
Introduction – Finn Stepputat
1. Governing the dead: theoretical approaches – Finn Stepputat
PART I: Containment and negotiation
2. The proper funeral: death, landscape and power among the Dukha Tuvinians in post-Soviet Mongolia – Benedicte Møller Kristensen
3. Dead zone: pollution, contamination, and the neglected dead in post-war Saigon – Christophe Robert
4. Traveling corpses: negotiating sovereign claims in Oaxacan post-mortem repatriation – Lars Ove Trans
5. Claiming the dead, defining the nation – Contested narratives of the independence struggle in post-conflict Timor-Leste – Henri Myrttinen
6. Re-making the dead, uncertainty and the torque of human materials in northern Zimbabwe – Joost Fontein
PART II: Transgression
7. Governing the disappeared-dead in Argentina: violent state formation and territoriality during authoritarian rule – Antonius C.G.M. Robben
8. Dangerous corpses in Mexico’s drug war – Regnar Kristensen
9. Time as weather: corpse-work in the prehistory of political boundaries – Richard Kernaghan
10. Feminicide: governing through the mutilated female body – Ninna Nyberg Sørensen
Outro
11. Abandonment and victory in relations with dead bodies – John Borneman
Index
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