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Torture and torturous violence : transcending definitions of torture /
With growing acknowledgement that torture is too narrowly defined in law, this book offers a nuanced reflection on the definition of torturous violence and its implications for survivors. Drawing on a decade of research with psychologists and women seeking asylum, Canning sets out the implications o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Bristol University Press,
2023.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Outline of Book
- Introduction: Why 'Torture and Torturous Violence'?
- Introduction
- Outlining key legal definitions of torture
- Addressing the complexities of torture and torturous violence
- Methods and methodologies
- A note on positionality and debates on the legitimacy of torture
- Structure of this book
- 1 Outlining the Definitional Boundaries of 'Torture'
- Introduction
- 'Torture': definitional developments and limitations
- Moving towards three epistemological perspectives
- 1. Orthodox legalism (strictly following legal conventions)
- Role of the state
- Systematic physical and psychological violence
- Adhering to legal conventions, including changing as they evolve
- 2. Legalist hybridity (taking a flexible approach between the application of legal conventions and wider definitions of torture and trauma)
- The archetypal narrative: multifarious forms of violence can be torture, but torture is separately definable
- Motivation matters
- so does severity and impact
- Survivor narratives do not always encompass the term 'torture', regardless of legal definitions
- 3. Experiential epistemologies (building knowledge on experiences of survivors)
- Defined by experience
- Definitions of torture may be organizationally bound to legal norms, but not bound to individual perspectives
- Where does 'torture' take place? Gendering torturous spatiality
- Torture as a social contract
- Group torture, witnessing and surveillance
- The employment of medical practitioners and psychologists
- Multiple perpetrator rape
- The expanding realms and recognitions of torture
- Conclusion
- 2 'Wandering Throughout Lives': Outlining Forms and Impacts of Torture
- Introduction
- Prologue: why outline forms of torture?
- Typologies of torture: situating mechanisms of physical and psychological violence
- Forms of infliction: what do we mean when we talk about 'torture'?
- The glocalization of torture
- From repetitive beatings to imaginative inquisition
- Psychological torture
- The move to 'clean' torture
- Deliberate permanency: when histories of torture lack an ending
- The impacts and effects of torture
- Impacts reported by practitioners working with survivors
- Psychological
- Physical and somatic
- 'Wandering throughout lives': social, cultural and relational
- Conclusion
- 3 'I Wouldn't Call it Torture': Conceptualizing Torturous Violence
- Introduction: thinking beyond states and state institutions
- The legal and epistemological expansion of definitions of violence
- What is torturous violence?
- Moving from who perpetrates violence and why, to the infliction and impact of violence
- 'It's non-stop. The violence continues': domestic and interpersonal violence as torturous