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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786196503321

Autore

Khalili Laleh

Titolo

Time in the Shadows [[electronic resource] ] : Confinement in Counterinsurgencies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8397-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Disciplina

355.7/1

Soggetti

Counterinsurgency -- History

Counterinsurgency -- United States

Detention of persons -- History

Detention of persons -- United States

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009

Counterinsurgency - History - United States

Detention of persons - History - United States

Counterinsurgency - Israel

Detention of persons - Israel

Counterinsurgency

Detention of persons

Military & Naval Science

Law, Politics & Government

Military Science - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Forebears: Imperial and Colonial Counterinsurgencies; 2. Lessons and Borrowings: The United States and Israel; 3. From Island Prisons to Guantánamo Bay; 4. Invisible Prisoners, Proxy-Run Prisons: From Khiyam to Rendition; 5. Banal Procedures of Detention: Abu Ghraib and Its Ancestors; 6. From Concentration Camps of the Boer War to Palestinian Enclaves; 7. The Fracture of Good Order; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Detention and confinement-of both combatants and large groups of civilians-have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of



the last century. Counterinsurgency theoreticians and practitioners explain this dizzying rise of detention camps, internment centers, and enclavisation by arguing that such actions ""protect"" populations. In this book, Laleh Khalili counters these arguments, telling the story of how this proliferation of concentration camps, strategic hamlets, ""security walls,"" and offshore prisons has come to be.Time in the Shadows investigates the two m

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910143382903321

Titolo

Annual report / Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated : = Ukiumut naunaitkutit / Nunavut Tunngavikkut Timingat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iqaluit, : Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, 1992-

Ottawa

Descrizione fisica

Online-Ressource

Classificazione

6,336,26

Disciplina

390

Soggetti

Zeitschrift

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

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