The prevention of torture : an ecological approach / Danielle Celermajer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Celermajer, Danielle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Torture--Sri Lanka--Prevention.

Torture.

Sri Lanka.

Torture--Nepal--Prevention.

Nepal.

Human rights--Sri Lanka.

Human rights.

Human rights--Nepal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 361 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

There is an urgent need to analyze and assess how we prevent torture, against the background of a rigorous analysis of the factors that condition and sustain it. Drawing on rich empirical material from Sri Lanka and Nepal, The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach interrogates the worlds that produce torture, in order to propose how to bring about systemic institutional and cultural change. Critics have decried human rights approaches' failure to attend to structural factors, but this book seeks to go beyond a 'stance of criticism' to take up the positive project of reimagining human rights theory and practice. It discusses key debates in human rights and political theory, as well as the challenges that advocates face in translating situational analyses into real world interventions. Danielle Celermajer develops a new, ecological framework for mapping the worlds that produce torture, and thereby develops prevention strategies.

Contents:

The principal approaches preventing torture

How effective has torture prevention been?

The situational conditions of institutional violence

The production of worlds of torture

Agents, structures and the social imaginary of human rights

Taking situational theory to the field

The promises and hazards of practice.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Sep 2018).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108556583

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.