The Singer’s Needle
An Undisciplined History of Panamá
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Part I: Coiba: An Introduction to the Panamanian Subject
Chapter One: Penal Colonialism and National Sovereignty: Porras and the Liberal Reforms, 1912–1924
Chapter Two: Punishment and Subject Formation
Chapter Three: The Singer’s Report: Text and Critique in Coiba, 1920–1935
Part II: Theaters of Authority
Chapter Four: The Remonato, a Hybrid State: 1947–1955
Chapter Five: Trials of Authority: Legal Consciousness and Formal Struggles in the Postwar Era
Part III: On the Way to Chumumbito, Santa Fe
Chapter Six: Héctor’s Hermeneutics: Radical Readings and Christian Liberation in Santa Fe de Veraguas, 1968–1971
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Geography: Cultural and Historical Geography
History: History of Ideas | Latin American History
Sociology: Social Institutions
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