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Torture Power, Democracy, and the Human Body

Biswas Shampa Zalloua Zahi
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780295991221
Publisert
2011-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Washington Press
Vekt
476 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Redaktør
Biswas Shampa
Zalloua Zahi

Om bidragsyterne

Shampa Biswas is associate professor of politics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and coeditor of Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies: International Relations and States of Exception. Zahi Zalloua is associate professor of French and general studies at Whitman College, author of Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism, and editor of The Comparatist and Montaigne After Theory, Theory After Montainge. The contributors include Stephanie Athey, Mark Danner, Julia Ireland, Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, Suvendrini Perera, Joseph Pugliese, Darius Rejali, and Lauren Wilcox.

Torture Power, Democracy, and the Human Body

Biswas Shampa Zalloua Zahi
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk
Biswas Shampa Zalloua Zahi
Heftet / 2011 / Engelsk
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<p>"The topic is of pressing contemporary relevance, and this volume does an excellent job of offering interdisciplinary insight into a controversial, complex issue. . . . the collection is a highly successful examination of torture. Summing up: Recommended."</p>

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The counterterrorism policies following September 11, 2001, brought the definition and legitimacy of torture to the forefront of political, military, and public debates. This timely volume explores the question of torture through multiple lenses by situating it within systems of belief, social networks of power, and ideological worldviews. Individual essays examine the boundaries of what is deemed legitimate political violence for the sake of state security, the immediate and long-term effects of torture on human and social bodies, the visual and artistic representations of torture, how certain people are dehumanized to make it acceptable to torture them, and how we understand complicity in and the ethical boundaries of torture.
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Explores the question of torture through multiple lenses by situating it within systems of belief, social networks of power, and ideological worldviews
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Torture, Democracy, and the Human Body. Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua1. Torture and Democracy: What Now? Darius Rejali2. Now That We've Tortured: Image, Guilt, Consequence. Mark Danner3. "We Are All Tortureers Now": Accountabiliy after Abu Ghraib. Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn4. Dying Is Not Permitted: Sovereignty, Biopower, and Force-Feeding at Guantanamo Bay. Lauren Wilcox5. The Torture Device: Debate and Archtype. Stephanie Athey6. Specters of the Muselmann: Guantanamo Bay Penalogial Theme Park and the Torture of Omar Khadr. Joseph Pugliese7. This Fragile Body: Susan Crile's Abu Ghraib: Abuse of Power. Julia A. Ireland8. Sre Lanka: Landscapes of Massacre. Suvendrini PereraBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
Les mer
"The topic is of pressing contemporary relevance, and this volume does an excellent job of offering interdisciplinary insight into a controversial, complex issue. . . . the collection is a highly successful examination of torture. Summing up: Recommended."
Les mer
Explores the question of torture through multiple lenses by situating it within systems of belief, social networks of power, and ideological worldviews

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<p>"The topic is of pressing contemporary relevance, and this volume does an excellent job of offering interdisciplinary insight into a controversial, complex issue. . . . the collection is a highly successful examination of torture. Summing up: Recommended."</p>

Choice

The counterterrorism policies following September 11, 2001, brought the definition and legitimacy of torture to the forefront of political, military, and public debates. This timely volume explores the question of torture through multiple lenses by situating it within systems of belief, social networks of power, and ideological worldviews. Individual essays examine the boundaries of what is deemed legitimate political violence for the sake of state security, the immediate and long-term effects of torture on human and social bodies, the visual and artistic representations of torture, how certain people are dehumanized to make it acceptable to torture them, and how we understand complicity in and the ethical boundaries of torture.
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Explores the question of torture through multiple lenses by situating it within systems of belief, social networks of power, and ideological worldviews
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Torture, Democracy, and the Human Body. Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua1. Torture and Democracy: What Now? Darius Rejali2. Now That We've Tortured: Image, Guilt, Consequence. Mark Danner3. "We Are All Tortureers Now": Accountabiliy after Abu Ghraib. Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn4. Dying Is Not Permitted: Sovereignty, Biopower, and Force-Feeding at Guantanamo Bay. Lauren Wilcox5. The Torture Device: Debate and Archtype. Stephanie Athey6. Specters of the Muselmann: Guantanamo Bay Penalogial Theme Park and the Torture of Omar Khadr. Joseph Pugliese7. This Fragile Body: Susan Crile's Abu Ghraib: Abuse of Power. Julia A. Ireland8. Sre Lanka: Landscapes of Massacre. Suvendrini PereraBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
Les mer
"The topic is of pressing contemporary relevance, and this volume does an excellent job of offering interdisciplinary insight into a controversial, complex issue. . . . the collection is a highly successful examination of torture. Summing up: Recommended."
Les mer
Explores the question of torture through multiple lenses by situating it within systems of belief, social networks of power, and ideological worldviews

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780295991221
Publisert
2011-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
University of Washington Press
Vekt
476 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Redaktør
Biswas Shampa
Zalloua Zahi

Om bidragsyterne

Shampa Biswas is associate professor of politics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and coeditor of Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies: International Relations and States of Exception. Zahi Zalloua is associate professor of French and general studies at Whitman College, author of Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism, and editor of The Comparatist and Montaigne After Theory, Theory After Montainge. The contributors include Stephanie Athey, Mark Danner, Julia Ireland, Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, Suvendrini Perera, Joseph Pugliese, Darius Rejali, and Lauren Wilcox.

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