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Political Torture in Popular Culture: The Role of Representations in the Post-9/11 Torture Debate: Popular Culture and World Politics

Autor Alex Adams
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Political Torture in Popular Culture argues that the literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has been one of the defining dimensions of the torture debate that has taken place in the course of the post-9/11 global war on terrorism. The book argues that cultural representations provide a vital arena in which political meaning is generated, negotiated, and contested.


Adams explores whether liberal democracies can ever legitimately perpetrate torture, contrasting assertions that torture can function as a legitimate counterterrorism measure with human rights-based arguments that torture is never morally permissible. He examines the philosophical foundations of pro- and anti-torture positions, looking at their manifestations in a range of literary, filmic and popular cultural texts, and assesses the material effects of these representations. Literary novels, televisual texts, films, and critical theoretical discourse are all covered, focusing on the ways that aesthetic and textual strategies are mobilised to create specific political effects.


This book is the first sustained analysis of the torture debate and the role that cultural narratives and representations play within it. It will be of great use to scholars interested in the emerging canon of post-9/11 cultural texts about torture, as well as scholars and students working in politics, history, geography, human rights, international relations, and terrorism studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and film studies.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367876586
ISBN-10: 0367876582
Pagini: 218
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Popular Culture and World Politics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction


PART ONE: CONTEXT


1: The Torture Debate


Torture


Islamophobia


Representation


2: Camp, Colony, Counterterrorism


Space


Power


Bodies


PART TWO: TEXT


3: Another Indochina


Memory


The Centurions (1960)


The Battle of Algiers (1966)


The Little Soldier (1960/63)


4: The Ticking Bomb and Beyond


24: Day Two (2002-3)


Rendition (2007)


Zero Dark Thirty (2012)


5: The War Prison


Guantánamo (2004)


The Road to Guantánamo (2006)


Standard Operating Procedure (2008)


Conclusion


Complicit (2013)

Notă biografică

Alex Adams completed his PhD in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK. He has contributed a number of journal articles and book chapters to recent publications.

Descriere

This book argues that literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has defined the torture debate that has taken place during the post-9/11 global war on terrorism. The author explores whether liberal democracies can ever legitimately perpetrate torture, with assertions that torture can function as a legitimate coun