Contesting Torture (eBook, ePUB)

Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Redaktion: Cox, Rory; Lang Jr., Anthony; Donnelly, Faye

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000725926
• Artikelnr.: 65546062

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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