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Contesting torture : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Rory Cox, Faye Donnelly, and Anthony F. Lang Jr

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Contesting torture : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Rory Cox, Faye Donnelly, and Anthony F. Lang Jr
Auteur(s)
Autre(s) auteur(s)
Publication
  • London New York (N.Y.) : Routledge, 2023
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XI-292 p.) : ill., photogr. ; 24 cm
Collection
  • Contemporary security studies
ISBN
  • 978-0-3673-6035-1
  • 0-367-36035-7
  • 978-1-0323-0869-2
  • 1-03-230869-9
EAN
  • 9781032308692 br.
Appartient à la collection
  • Contemporary security studies 2004 London Routledge F. Cass
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 364.67
Note(s)
  • Textes issus de communications, présentés lors d'un colloque, organisé par et tenu à, l'Université de St Andrews (GB), le 26 octobre 2017
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. en fin de chapitres. Notes bibliogr. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • "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. The resurgence of torture and public justifications of it led to the central questions which this inter-disciplinary volume seeks to address: How is it possible for torture to be practised when it is legally prohibited ? What kinds of moves do agents make which render torture palatable ? Why do so many ignore the evidence that torture is ineffective as an intelligence-gathering technique ? Who are the victims of torture ? The various contributors in the book look to history, the practices of interrogators, artistic representations, documentary films, rendition policies, political campaigns, diplomatic discourses, international legal rules, refugee practices, and cultural representations of death and the body to illuminate how torture becomes permissible. Building from the personal to the communal, and from the practical to the conceptual, the volume reflects the multivalence of torture itself. This framework enables readers at all levels better appreciate how and why torture is open to so many interpretations and applications. This book will be of much interest to students of International Relations, Security Studies, Terrorism Studies, Ethics, and International Legal Studies." (p. de garde)
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