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This edited volume seeks to contest prevailing assumptions about torture and to consider why, despite its illegality, torture continues to be widely employed and misrepresented.
List of contents
Introduction: Contesting Torture: Continuing Debates, Questions and Reflections Part I: Competing Narratives of Torture 1. Why Perpetrators Matter 2. Torturing the New Barbarians 3. Fantasy, Transgression and US Support for Torture: A Micropolitical Study 4. Death and Torture: Contesting Narratives and Sites of Resistance Part II: Imaging and Seeing Torture 5. Social Imaginaries of Truth: Zero Dark Thirty and The Report 6. Framing Torture on Screen: Negotiating the Unwatchable 7. Facing Torture through Art and the Afterlives of War: Behind the Mask Part III: Contesting Torture in Law 8. Diplomatic Assurances and Re-writing the ‘Rules of the Game’ 9. Contesting the Meaning, Permissibility and Use of Torture: Enhanced Interrogation Methods and the Norm against Torture 10. Labelling, Torture and Law Enforcement in Zimbabwe Part IV: Torture and Institutions 11. Reserving the Right to Torture 12. Torture in a Land of Safety: Slow Violence and Immigration Control in the UK 13. Liberalism, Torture and Global Constitutionalism Afterword: Cynthia Enloe
About the author
Rory Cox is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St. Andrews and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. His research explores the ethics of violence and the history of the just war tradition over a broad chronological range.
Faye Donnelly is a Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews. Her research and teaching engage with and contribute to critical security studies.
Anthony F. Lang Jr. is a Professor of International Political Theory in the School of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews. His research and teaching sit at the intersection of politics, law, and ethics at the global level.
Summary
This edited volume seeks to contest prevailing assumptions about torture and to consider why, despite its illegality, torture continues to be widely employed and misrepresented.
