Speaking about Torture [1 ed.] 9780823246229, 9780823242245

This collection of essays is the first book to take up the urgent issue of torture from the array of approaches offered

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Speaking about Torture [1 ed.]
9780823246229, 9780823242245

This collection explores torture from the array of approaches offered by the arts and humanities. It contends that these

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Probably the most prominent living filmmaker, and one of the foremost directors of the postwar era, Jean Luc-Godard has

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Probably the most prominent living filmmaker, and one of the foremost directors of the postwar era, Jean Luc-Godard has

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When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attribut

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Sometimes the truth is buried in front of us. That is the case with more than 140,000 government documents relating to a

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Despite Victor Hugo's 19th-century proclamation that torture no longer exists, we still find it even now, even in t

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Does torture "work?" Can controversial techniques such as waterboarding extract crucial and reliable intellige

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There is growing recognition that torture is too narrowly defined in law and that psychological and/or sexualised violen

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Universally condemned and everywhere illegal, torture goes on in democracies as well as in dictatorships. Nonetheless, m

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