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Torture : power, democracy, and the human body / edited by Shampa Biswas, Zahi Zalloua.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Global re-visions.
- Global re-visions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Torture--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.
- Torture.
- Human body--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.
- Human body.
- Psychiatric ethics--Congresses.
- Psychiatric ethics.
- Mind and body--Congresses.
- Mind and body.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Torture, democracy, and the human body / Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua
- Torture and democracy : what now? / Darius Rejali
- Now that we've tortured : image, guilt, consequence / Mark Danner
- We are all torturers now : accountability after Abu Ghraib / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
- Dying Is not permitted : sovereignty, biopower, and force-feeding at Guantánamo Bay / Lauren Wilcox
- The torture device : debate and archetype / Stephanie Athey
- Specters of the Muselmann : Guantánamo Bay Penalogial Theme Park and the torture of Omar Khadr / Joseph Pugliese
- This fragile body : Susan Crile's Abu Ghraib : abuse of power / Julia A. Ireland
- Sri Lanka : landscapes of massacre / Suvendrini Perera.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9780295801810
- 0295801816
- OCLC:
- 775741242
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