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Contesting Torture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Contesting Torture Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By Rory Cox, Faye Donnelly, Anthony Lang Jr. Copyright 2023
304 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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 that this inter-disciplinary volume seeks to address: How is it possible for torture to be practiced when it is legally... Read more

Introduction: Contesting Torture: Continuing Debates, Questions and Reflections

Rory Cox, Faye Donnelly, and Anthony F Lang, Jr

Part I: Competing Narratives of Torture

1. Why Perpetrators Matter

Jonathan Luke Austin

2. Torturing the New Barbarians

Rory Cox

3. Fantasy, Transgression and US Support for Torture: A Micropolitical Study

Brent J Steele

4. Death and Torture: Contesting Narratives and Sites of Resistance

Faye Donnelly and Fabian Wolke

Part II: Imaging and Seeing Torture

5. Social Imaginaries of Truth: Zero Dark Thirty and The Report

Juha A. Vuori

6. Framing Torture on Screen: Negotiating the Unwatchable

Vincent Förster

7. Facing Torture through Art and the Afterlives of War: Behind the Mask

Laura Mills

Part III: Contesting Torture in Law

8. Diplomatic Assurances and Re-writing the ‘Rules of the Game’

Jamal Barnes

9. Contesting the Meaning, Permissibility and Use of Torture: Enhanced Interrogation Methods and the Norm against Torture

Andrea Birdsall

10. Labelling, Torture and Law Enforcement in Zimbabwe

Patrick Tom and Silas Chekera

Part IV: Torture and Institutions

11. Reserving the Right to Torture

Ruth Blakeley and Sam Raphael

12. Torture in a Land of Safety: Slow Violence and Immigration Control in the UK

Natasha Saunders

13. Liberalism, Torture and Global Constitutionalism

Anthony F Lang, Jr.

Afterword: Cynthia Enloe

Biography

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.

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