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UNINA9910462498703321 |
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Khalili Laleh |
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Time in the Shadows [[electronic resource] ] : Confinement in Counterinsurgencies |
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Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
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1 online resource (365 p.) |
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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 |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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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 |
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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 |
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UNINA9910787467603321 |
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Dundes Alan |
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From game to war and other psychoanalytic essays on folklore / / Alan Dundes |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1997 |
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©1997 |
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1 online resource (140 p.) |
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Folklore - Psychological aspects |
Folklore - United States |
Psychoanalysis and folklore - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The psychological study of folklore in the United States -- Traditional male combat : from game to war -- The apple-shot : interpreting the legend of William Tell -- The flood as male myth of creation -- Why is the Jew "dirty"? : a psychological study of anti-Semitic folklore. |
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Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic theory. Freud and some of his early disciples recognized the potential of such folklorist genres as myth, folktale, and legend to illuminate the intricate workings of the human |
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psyche. Alan Dundes is a renowned folklorist who has successfully devoted the better part of his career to applying psychoanalytic theory to the materials of folklore. From Game to War offers five of his most mature essays on this topic.Dundes begins with a com |
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