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Torture : Power, Democracy, and the Human Body.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Global Re-Visions SeriesPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (293 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295801810
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: TortureDDC classification:
  • 364.6/7
LOC classification:
  • HV8593 -- .T6627 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Torture and Democracy: What Now? -- 2. Now That We've Tortured: Image, Guilt, Consequence -- 3. "We Are All Torturers Now" : Accountability after Abu Ghraib -- 4. Dying Is Not Permitted: Sovereignty, Biopower, and Force-Feeding at Guantánamo Bay -- 5. The Torture Device: Debate and Archetype -- 6. Specters of the Muselmann: Guantánamo Bay Penalogical Theme Park and the Torture of Omar Khadr -- 7. This Fragile Body: Susan Crile's 'Abu Ghraib: Abuse of Power' -- 8. Sri Lanka: Landscapes of Massacre -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Torture and Democracy: What Now? -- 2. Now That We've Tortured: Image, Guilt, Consequence -- 3. "We Are All Torturers Now" : Accountability after Abu Ghraib -- 4. Dying Is Not Permitted: Sovereignty, Biopower, and Force-Feeding at Guantánamo Bay -- 5. The Torture Device: Debate and Archetype -- 6. Specters of the Muselmann: Guantánamo Bay Penalogical Theme Park and the Torture of Omar Khadr -- 7. This Fragile Body: Susan Crile's 'Abu Ghraib: Abuse of Power' -- 8. Sri Lanka: Landscapes of Massacre -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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