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Torture: Power, Democracy, and the Human Body

Torture: Power, Democracy, and the Human Body

Biswas, Shampa
Zalloua, Zahi

Hardcover

Series: Global Re-Visions

PhilosophyCriminologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0295996900
ISBN13: 9780295996905
Publisher: Univ Of Washington Pr
Published: Jul 20 2015
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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