Lazreg Torture and the Twilight of Empire

From Algiers to Baghdad
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-8381-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 3, 368 Seiten

Reihe: Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lazreg, Marnia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations xi

Introduction 1

Part I: Imperial Politics and Torture

Chapter 1: Revolutionary-War Theory 15

Chapter 2: Militarization of the Colonial State 34

Chapter 3: Psychological Action 61

Chapter 4: Models of Pacification: From Nietzsche to Sun Tzu 87

Part II: Ethnography of Torture

Chapter 5: Doing Torture 111

Chapter 6: Women: Between Torture and Military Feminism 145

Part III: Ideology of Torture

Chapter 7: Conscience, Imperial Identity, and Torture 173

Chapter 8: The Christian Church and Antisubversive War 191

Chapter 9: Fanon, Sartre, and Camus 213

Part IV: Reflections on Torture

Chapter 10: Moralizing Torture 237

Chapter 11: Repetitions: From Algiers to Baghdad 253

Notes 271

Glossary 309

References and Selected Bibliography 311

Index 323

Über Autor(innen)

Marnia Lazreg is professor of sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include The Eloquence of Silence: Algerian Women in Question.