A genealogy of the torture taboo /

A genealogy of the torture taboo /

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Author / Creator:	Barnes, Jamal, author.
Imprint:	London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Group 2017.
Description:	201 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge studies in human rights ; 2 Routledge studies in human rights ; 2.
Subject:	Torture -- History. Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects. Human rights. Human rights. Torture. Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects. History.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11334621

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ISBN:	9781138285385 (hardback) 1138285382 (hardback) 9781315269009 (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book examines the historical genealogy of the torture taboo. The dissonance between the absolute prohibition against torture and its widespread violation raises important questions about the torture taboo in world politics. Does the torture taboo matter? Or are political realists correct in arguing that power politics rules? [The author] argues that despite the torture taboo's violation, it still matters, and paradoxically, its strength can be seen by studying its violation. States hide, deny, re-define and outsource their torture, as well as torture without leaving marks to avoid being stigmatised as a norm violating state. Tracing a genealogy of the torture taboo from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century Barnes shows how the taboo has developed over time, and how violations have played an important role in that development. Through six historical and contemporary case studies, it is argued that the taboo's humanitarian pressures do not cease when states violate the norm, but continue to shape actors in unexpected ways."--

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