Contesting Torture : Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Paperback)

Introduction: Contesting Torture: Continuing Debates, Questions and Reflections  Part I: Competing Narratives of Torture  1. Why Perpetrators Matter  2. Torturing the New Barbarians  3. Fantasy, Transgression and US Support for Torture: A Micropolitical Study  4. Death and Torture: Contesting Narratives and Sites of Resistance  Part II: Imaging and Seeing Torture  5. Social Imaginaries of Truth: Zero Dark Thirty and The Report  6. Framing Torture on Screen: Negotiating the Unwatchable  7. Facing Torture through Art and the Afterlives of War: Behind the Mask  Part III: Contesting Torture in Law  8. Diplomatic Assurances and Re-writing the ‘Rules of the Game’  9. Contesting the Meaning, Permissibility and Use of Torture: Enhanced Interrogation Methods and the Norm against Torture  10. Labelling, Torture and Law Enforcement in Zimbabwe  Part IV: Torture and Institutions  11. Reserving the Right to Torture  12. Torture in a Land of Safety: Slow Violence and Immigration Control in the UK  13. Liberalism, Torture and Global Constitutionalism  Afterword: Cynthia Enloe