Torture - Power, Democracy, and the Human Body

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Torture d: Image, Guilt, Consequence. Mark Danner 3. "We Are All Torture ers 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

Product details

• Authors: Shampa (EDT)/ Zalloua Biswas, Shampa Zalloua Biswas
• Assisted by: Shampa Biswas (Editor), Zahi Zalloua (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9780295996905
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99690-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Global Re-Visions; Whitman College, Global Re-Visions; Global Re-Visions; Torture; Global Re-VisionsGlobal Re-VisionsGlobal Re-VisionsGlobal Re-VisionsGlobal Re-VisionsTorture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories