Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. 1. The Event and the Everyday 1
5. 2. The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed 18
6. 3. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain 38
7. 4. The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity 59
8. 5. Boundaries, Violence, and the Work of Time 79
9. 6. Thinking of Time and Subjectivity 95
10. 7. In the Region of Rumor 108
11. 8. The Force of the Local 135
12. 9. The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility 162
13. 10. Three Portraits of Grief and Mourning 184
14. 11. Revisiting Trauma, Testimony, and Political Community 205
15. Notes 223
16. Acknowledgments 267
17. Index 271