Torture And Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Torture And Modernity write by Darius M Rejali. This book was released on 1994. Torture And Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does the practice of torture presuppose about human beings and human society? How does one explain a society in which institutional torture persists despite massive changes in government and class structure? What, indeed, are the social foundations of modern torture? In Culture and Modernity, Darius M. Rejali investigates torture in Iran in order to understand and critically reconsider the politics and psychology of modern torture. In a world in which one out of every three governments uses torture, Rejali points to a common past, one shared by Iranians and non-Iranians alike, that supports this practice.“My aim,” Rejali writes, “is to use the study of torture, and of punishment more generally, to unearth deep and important assumptions about society, history, politics, and the ‘good life' that I believe underpin the life of a torturer.”Exploring the four principle explanations of modern torture—those offered by human rights activists, modernization theorists, state terrorist theorists such as Noam Chomsky, and post-structuralists, especially Michel Foucault—Rejali asks, “Do the accounts of political violence that we have developed over the past century have any real… explanatory or even moral significance… in today's world, or are they just consolations in the face of events we cannot fully understand?” His answers lead him to reconsider how Middle Eastern and European history are written and move him to question cherished assumptions about state formation, modernization, and postmodernism. Torture and Modernity is a deeply unsettling book—it contains not only graphic verbal passages, but an extensive photographic essay—yet it is intended to serve as a guide to rethinking current attitudes and reshaping political policies. How people are punished necessarily invokes conceptions of what human beings are and what they might become. A work such as this offers an understanding of what it means to “become modern,” and it is only when this notion of modernity is made manifest and analyzed that one can firmly grasp the prospects for a world without torture.
Torture and Democracy
Torture and Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Torture and Democracy write by Darius Rejali. This book was released on 2009-06-08. Torture and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the most comprehensive, and most comprehensively chilling, study of modern torture yet written. Darius Rejali, one of the world's leading experts on torture, takes the reader from the late nineteenth century to the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, from slavery and the electric chair to electrotorture in American inner cities, and from French and British colonial prison cells and the Spanish-American War to the fields of Vietnam, the wars of the Middle East, and the new democracies of Latin America and Europe. As Rejali traces the development and application of one torture technique after another in these settings, he reaches startling conclusions. As the twentieth century progressed, he argues, democracies not only tortured, but set the international pace for torture. Dictatorships may have tortured more, and more indiscriminately, but the United States, Britain, and France pioneered and exported techniques that have become the lingua franca of modern torture: methods that leave no marks. Under the watchful eyes of reporters and human rights activists, low-level authorities in the world's oldest democracies were the first to learn that to scar a victim was to advertise iniquity and invite scandal. Long before the CIA even existed, police and soldiers turned instead to "clean" techniques, such as torture by electricity, ice, water, noise, drugs, and stress positions. As democracy and human rights spread after World War II, so too did these methods. Rejali makes this troubling case in fluid, arresting prose and on the basis of unprecedented research--conducted in multiple languages and on several continents--begun years before most of us had ever heard of Osama bin Laden or Abu Ghraib. The author of a major study of Iranian torture, Rejali also tackles the controversial question of whether torture really works, answering the new apologists for torture point by point. A brave and disturbing book, this is the benchmark against which all future studies of modern torture will be measured.
Torture, Democracy and Technology
Torture, Democracy and Technology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Torture, Democracy and Technology write by Darius REJALI. This book was released on 2000. Torture, Democracy and Technology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300–1650
Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300–1650 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300–1650 write by Dr John R Decker. This book was released on 2015-01-28. Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300–1650 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: the art of the late medieval and early modern periods contains myriad examples of spectacular unmaking. The martyrdoms of saints, stories of justice, and reports of the atrocities of war provided fertile ground for scenes of bodily desecration. Contributors to this volume explore the larger social functions that pain, suffering, and the desecration of the human form played in European society.
Tortured Confessions
Tortured Confessions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tortured Confessions write by Ervand Abrahamian. This book was released on 1999. Tortured Confessions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 3 The Islamic Republic
