Torture

An Interdisciplinary Approach

By: Kathleen Barrett, George Klay Kieh Jr, Gavin M Lee, Neema Noori

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Hardcover | 15 August 2024

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Drawing on insights from political science, criminology, and sociology, Torture: An Interdisciplinary Approach investigates the nature and evolution of torture. By surveying the use of torture across time and space, this book considers the development of an international human rights discourse challenging the legitimacy of torture as an instrument of interrogation.

Kathleen Barrett, George Klay Kieh, Jr., Gavin M. Lee, and Neema Noori critically assess the effectiveness of legal regimes, both national and international, that arose as a result of this discourse and the emergent global movement to ban the use of torture. In addition to grappling with colonial legacies of torture and the particular ways that great powers, whether liberal or illiberal, deploy these coercive practices, this book argues that torture continues to serve as a repressive practice that mediates the relationship between the state and its citizens in many countries within the global south. The authors demonstrate that as governments move away from one set of perceived atrocities, they develop new methods of torture and establish novel strategies for justifying these coercive practices.

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"Torture: An Interdisciplinary Approach explores and illuminates the broad range of factors that enable, protect, normalize, and reward torture. The book focuses particular attention on the role of empire and globalization in fostering modern torture in the global south and creating the conditions for the use of torture by non-state actors such as terrorist groups. The authors not only call for greater accountability at national and international levels; they also argue convincingly that the best way to end torture lies in the struggle for equity and democracy." --John Parry, Lewis & Clark Law School

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