Torture and the twilight of empire : from Algiers to Baghdad.
Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at...
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| বিন্যাস: | Ouvrage |
| ভাষা: | Anglais |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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| মালা: | Human rights and crimes against humanity
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| অনলাইন ব্যবহার করুন: | Table of contents only |
সূচিপত্রের সারণি:
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Imperial politics and torture
- Revolutionary war theory
- Militarization of the colonial state
- Psychological action
- Models of pacification
- Ethnography of torture
- Doing torture
- Women: between torture and military feminism
- Ideology of torture
- Conscience, imperial identity, and torture
- The Christian church and anti-subversive war
- Sartre, Fanon, and Camus
- Reflections on torture
- Moralizing torture
- Repetitions: from Algiers to Baghdad.