Olson / Molloy

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Torture

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Buch. Softcover

2019

X, 144 S.

In englischer Sprache

Brill. ISBN 9789004405707

Format (B x L): 15,5 x 23,5 cm

Gewicht: 256 g

Das Werk ist Teil der Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries; 127

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers diverse insights on how the practice of torture has impacted society and how we view human nature. After the Second World War, it was hoped that torture had been permanently vanquished among modern liberal states, and was only practiced by brutal totalitarian regimes. However, events after 9/11 revealed that the re-emergence of torture is an ever-present threat, even among leading democracies. Drawing from their knowledge of the humanities and social sciences, the contributors offer their expertise on the deleterious effects of torture and reveal that its trauma is interwoven into the fabric of modern society, requiring constant diligence to be rooted out and kept at bay.

Contributors are William Fitzhugh Brundage, Federico Ciavattone, Noora Virjamo, Toni Koivulahti, Diana Medlicott, Stuart Molloy, Lon Olson, Martin Previsic, David Senesh and Hedi Viterbo.