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Torture


Torture

Power, Democracy, and the Human Body
Global Re-Visions

von: Shampa Biswas, Zahi Zalloua

26,99 €

Verlag: University Of Washington Press
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 01.12.2011
ISBN/EAN: 9780295801810
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 288

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<p>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.</p>
<p>Acknowledgements</p>
<p>Introduction: <i>Torture</i>, Democracy, and the Human Body. Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua</p>
<p>1. <i>Torture</i> and Democracy: What Now? Darius Rejali</p>
<p>2. Now That We've <i>Torture</i>d: Image, Guilt, Consequence. Mark Danner</p>
<p>3. "We Are All <i>Torture</i>ers Now": Accountabiliy after Abu Ghraib. Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn</p>
<p>4. Dying Is Not Permitted: Sovereignty, Biopower, and Force-Feeding at Guantanamo Bay. Lauren Wilcox</p>
<p>5. The <i>Torture</i> Device: Debate and Archtype. Stephanie Athey</p>
<p>6. Specters of the Muselmann: Guantanamo Bay Penalogial Theme Park and the <i>Torture</i> of Omar Khadr. Joseph Pugliese</p>
<p>7. This Fragile Body: Susan Crile's Abu Ghraib: Abuse of Power. Julia A. Ireland</p>
<p>8. Sre Lanka: Landscapes of Massacre. Suvendrini Perera</p>
<p>Bibliography</p>
<p>Notes on Contributors</p>
<p>Index</p>
<p>Shampa Biswas is associate professor of politics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and coeditor of <i>Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies: International Relations and States of Exception</i>. Zahi Zalloua is associate professor of French and general studies at Whitman College, author of <i>Montaigne and the Ethics of Skepticism</i>, and editor of <i>The Comparatist</i> and <i>Montaigne After Theory, Theory After Montainge</i>. The contributors include Stephanie Athey, Mark Danner, Julia Ireland, Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, Suvendrini Perera, Joseph Pugliese, Darius Rejali, and Lauren Wilcox.</p>

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