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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Hlavní autor: Lazreg, Marnia
Médium: Ouvrage
Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Edice:Human rights and crimes against humanity
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On-line přístup:Table of contents only
Obsah:
  • 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.