Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Torture

Author : Lon Olson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004408010
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Torture written by Lon Olson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers diverse insights on the practice of torture. Spanning history, law, literature, philosophy, psychology, and theology, the book explores how torture has been and continues to be woven into the fabric of modern society.

Author : Werner G. K. Stritzke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521898196
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrorism and Torture written by Werner G. K. Stritzke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thought-provoking volume examining the complex factors contributing to terrorism and torture, and the links between those two heinous behaviours.

Author : Rory Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781032308692
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contesting Torture written by Rory Cox and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511580550
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrorism and Torture written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Terrorism and torture are twin evils that have dominated news headlines - particularly since the horrifying events of 9/11. In this thought-provoking volume, scholars from a diverse range of disciplines examine the complex motivational and situational factors contributing to terrorist acts and state-sponsored torture, and the potential linkage between those two heinous human behaviors. They also consider the strategies that might reduce the threat of future terrorist acts, and the perceived necessity to engage in morally reprehensible - and often illegal - torture practices. With its integrated synthesis of contemporary theories and research on the complex dynamics of the terrorism-torture link, this is an authoritative source for scholars and students of psychology, criminal justice, law, media, communication studies, and political science. It will also appeal to students of other disciplines with an interest in the study of terrorism and torture".--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : Kathleen Barrett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793624518
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torture written by Kathleen Barrett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-07-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on insights from political science, criminology, and sociology, Torture: An Interdisciplinary Approach investigates the nature and evolution of torture. By surveying the use of torture across time and space, this book considers the development of an international human rights discourse challenging the legitimacy of torture as an instrument of interrogation. Kathleen Barrett, George Klay Kieh, Jr., Gavin M. Lee, and Neema Noori critically assess the effectiveness of legal regimes, both national and international, that arose as a result of this discourse and the emergent global movement to ban the use of torture. In addition to grappling with colonial legacies of torture and the particular ways that great powers, whether liberal or illiberal, deploy these coercive practices, this book argues that torture continues to serve as a repressive practice that mediates the relationship between the state and its citizens in many countries within the global south. The authors demonstrate that as governments move away from one set of perceived atrocities, they develop new methods of torture and establish novel strategies for justifying these coercive practices.

Author : John T. Parry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904710974
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rights, Citizenship and Torture written by John T. Parry and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of rights, citizenship and torture from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Author : Professor Metin Baso?lu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199374643
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torture and Its Definition In International Law written by Professor Metin Baso?lu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to definition of torture by bringing together behavioral science and international law perspectives on torture. It is a collaborative effort by a group of prominent scholars of behavioral sciences, international law, human rights, and public health with internationally recognized expertise and authority in their field. It represents a first ever attempt to explore the scientific basis of legal understanding of torture and inform international law on various definitional issues by proposing a sound theory- and empirical-evidence-based psychological formulation of torture. Drawing on scientific evidence from the editor's 30 years of systematic research on torture, it proposes a learning theory formulation of torture based on the concept of helplessness under the control of others and offers an assessment methodology that can reduce the element of subjectivity in legal judgments in individual cases. It also demonstrates how this formulation can help understand the nature and severity of ill-treatments in different contexts, such as domestic violence and adverse conditions of penal confinement. Through a learning theory analysis of "enhanced interrogation techniques," it demonstrates not only why these techniques constitute torture but also how they help us understand the contextual defining characteristic of torture in general. The proposed formulation implies a broader concept of torture than previously understood, provides scientific and moral justification for the evolving trends in international law towards a broader coverage of ill-treatments in contexts beyond official custody and points to new directions of expansion of the concept. With a focus on the concepts of shame and humiliation and their evolutionary origin, the book explains why inhuman or degrading treatments can cause as much pain or suffering as physical torture. Although treatment issues are not covered, the book sheds light on potentially effective treatment approaches by offering important insights into psychology of torture.

Author : Deborah Staines
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527568423
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interrogating the War on Terror written by Deborah Staines and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogating the War on Terror presents a critique of contemporary war culture and politics, introducing a range of political, philosophical, legal, artistic and social perspectives on a devastating war. Bringing together contributors from the United States, UK and Australia—implicitly dissenting from within the Coalition of the Willing—this volume explores the discourses and cultural effects of the current “war on terror”. Is the so-called war on terror justified? Seeking an ethical engagement with the problems and paradoxes of this global conflict, the authors situate the historical and legal meanings of terror and terrorism alongside the exploitation of such terms by the Bush Administration and other governments in recent years. Contributions by philosophers, sociologists, and law and literature scholars raise questions about neo-conservatism, freedom, security and the new legitimation of torture, and demonstrate how this war brings political and discursive power to bear on democracy, human rights and individuals in places as far-flung as Iraq, Bali, and the U.S. Artworks by internationally renowned war artist George Gittoes, and several essays by cultural theorists return a critical emphasis to the role of visual media, affect, gender and popular culture in understanding and rethinking war. Interrogating the War on Terror’s multi-disciplinary and international perspectives will be useful to scholars and students alike in addressing this highly topical issue. The essays reference mainstream sources and widely-documented events in the war on terror, making it accessible also to the general reader.

Author : Alexandra S. Moore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331974965X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witnessing Torture written by Alexandra S. Moore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber. By dismantling the rhetorical divide that typically separates survivors’ suffering from human rights workers’ expertise, contributors engage with the personal, professional, and institutional dimensions of torture and redress. Essays in this volume consider torture from diverse locations – the Philippines, Argentina, Sudan, and Guantánamo, among others. From across the globe, contributors witness both individual pain and institutional complicity; the challenges of building communities of healing across linguistic and national divides; and the role of the law, art, writing, and teaching in representing and responding to torture.

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134003684
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ritual and Event written by Mark Franko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises traditionally understood relationships between ritual and politics, ritual and everyday life, ritual and art making, and ritual and disaster. The methodologies as well as the subject matter are interdisciplinary: they range from the anthropological to the art and dance historical, from the theatrical and literary to the linguistic, philosophical, and psychoanalytic. It will be a valuable tool for scholars of Theater and Performance Studies, as well as Anthropology, Art, and History.