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Zusatztext "As a highly original, yet solid, analysis of the political sociology, psychology, and anthropology of torture, Lazreg's research establishes critical connections between Algeria and the Shock and Awe Campaign of the Second Gulf War with the Bush White House years marked by state terror abroad and at home. . . . This book is required reading for all." ---Julia Clancy-Smith, Review of Middle Eastern Studies Informationen zum Autor Marnia Lazreg is professor of sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question . Klappentext "This book interprets torture not as an incidental if frequent characteristic of neocolonial conflict! but as one of its major elements. Using the Algerian war as a case study! Lazreg argues that to the French forces the psychological and political significance of their policy of torture was far greater than its operational significance. Her work is certainly pertinent to the present."--Peter Paret! Institute for Advanced Study Zusammenfassung Looks at the relationship between torture and colonial domination through a examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. This book presents an anatomy of torture - its methods, justifications, functions, and consequences. It also shows how torture was central to guerre revolutionnaire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 Part I: Imperial Politics and Torture Chapter 1: Revolutionary-War Theory 15 Chapter 2: Militarization of the Colonial State 34 Chapter 3: Psychological Action 61 Chapter 4: Models of Pacification: From Nietzsche to Sun Tzu 87 Part II: Ethnography of Torture Chapter 5: Doing Torture 111 Chapter 6: Women: Between Torture and Military Feminism 145 Part III: Ideology of Torture Chapter 7: Conscience! Imperial Identity! and Torture 173 Chapter 8: The Christian Church and Antisubversive War 191 Chapter 9: Fanon! Sartre! and Camus 213 Part IV: Reflections on Torture Chapter 10: Moralizing Torture 237 Chapter 11: Repetitions: From Algiers to Baghdad 253 Notes 271 Glossary 309 References and Selected Bibliography 311 Index 323 ...
