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Torture : power, democracy, and the human body / edited by Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Global re-visionsPublication details: Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 283 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295801810
  • 0295801816
Other title:
  • Power, democracy, and the human body
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: TortureDDC classification:
  • 364.6/7 23
LOC classification:
  • HV8593
Other classification:
  • MD 8980
Online resources:
Contents:
Torture and democracy : what now? / Darius Rejali -- Now that we've tortured : image, guilt, consequence / Mark Danner -- We are all torturers now : accountability after Abu Ghraib / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn -- Dying Is not permitted : sovereignty, biopower, and force-feeding at Guantánamo Bay / Lauren Wilcox -- The torture device : debate and archetype / Stephanie Athey -- Specters of the Muselmann : Guantánamo Bay Penalogial Theme Park and the torture of Omar Khadr / Joseph Pugliese -- This fragile body : Susan Crile's Abu Ghraib : abuse of power / Julia A. Ireland -- Sri Lanka : landscapes of massacre / Suvendrini Perera.
Holdings
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eBook eBook e-Library EBSCO Social Science Available
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-263) and index.

Torture and democracy : what now? / Darius Rejali -- Now that we've tortured : image, guilt, consequence / Mark Danner -- We are all torturers now : accountability after Abu Ghraib / Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn -- Dying Is not permitted : sovereignty, biopower, and force-feeding at Guantánamo Bay / Lauren Wilcox -- The torture device : debate and archetype / Stephanie Athey -- Specters of the Muselmann : Guantánamo Bay Penalogial Theme Park and the torture of Omar Khadr / Joseph Pugliese -- This fragile body : Susan Crile's Abu Ghraib : abuse of power / Julia A. Ireland -- Sri Lanka : landscapes of massacre / Suvendrini Perera.

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WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 050, 082

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