Torture

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.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Torture, Democracy, and the Human Body. Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua

1. Torture and Democracy: What Now? Darius Rejali

2. Now That We've Tortured: Image, Guilt, Consequence. Mark Danner

3. "We Are All Tortureers Now": Accountabiliy after Abu Ghraib. Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn

4. Dying Is Not Permitted: Sovereignty, Biopower, and Force-Feeding at Guantanamo Bay. Lauren Wilcox

5. The Torture Device: Debate and Archtype. Stephanie Athey

6. Specters of the Muselmann: Guantanamo Bay Penalogial Theme Park and the Torture of Omar Khadr. Joseph Pugliese

7. This Fragile Body: Susan Crile's Abu Ghraib: Abuse of Power. Julia A. Ireland

8. Sre Lanka: Landscapes of Massacre. Suvendrini Perera

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Notes on Contributors

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