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Torture

Power, Democracy, and the Human Body

Shampa Biswas, Zahi Zalloua (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2011
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99122-1 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
Explores the question of torture through multiple lenses by situating it within systems of belief, social networks of power, and ideological worldviews
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.

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

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index

Reihe/Serie Torture
Zusatzinfo 4 illus.
Verlagsort Seattle
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 476 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Völkerrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-295-99122-4 / 0295991224
ISBN-13 978-0-295-99122-1 / 9780295991221
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