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Time in the shadows : confinement in counterinsurgencies /

"Detention and confinement -- of both combatants and large groups of civilians -- have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last century. Counterinsurgency theoreticians and practitioners explain this dizzying rise of detention camps, internment centers, and enclavisation b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Khalili, Laleh (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The forebears: imperial and colonial counterinsurgencies
  • Lessons and borrowings: the United States and Israel
  • From island prisons to Guantánamo Bay
  • Invisible prisoners, proxy-run prisons: from Khiyam to rendition
  • Banal procedures of detention: Abu Ghraib and its ancestors
  • From concentration camps of the Boer War to Palestinian enclaves
  • The fracture of good order.