Torture and the Twilight of Empire : From Algiers to Baghdad /

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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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Autor principal: Lazreg, Marnia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Abu Ghraib Prison.
Torture.
Atrocities.
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011 > Atrocites.
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Atrocities.
Torture > Algeria > History > 20th century.
Iraq.
Algeria.
Algerie > Histoire > 1954-1962 (Guerre d'Algerie) > Atrocites.
Algeria > History > Revolution, 1954-1962 > Atrocities.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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