The counterterrorism policies following September 11, 2001, brought the definition and legitimacy of torture to the forefront of political, military, and public debates. This timely volume explores the question of torture through multiple lenses by situating it within systems of belief, social networks of power, and ideological worldviews. Individual essays examine the boundaries of what is deemed legitimate political violence for the sake of state security, the immediate and lo...
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Introduction: Torture, Democracy, and the Human Body. Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua
1. Torture and Democracy: What Now? Darius Rejali
2. Now That We’ve T...
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Shampa Biswas is associate professor of politics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and coeditor of Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies: Inte...
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