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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462498703321

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

Electronic books.

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

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787467603321

Autore

Dundes Alan

Titolo

From game to war and other psychoanalytic essays on folklore / / Alan Dundes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

0-8131-6158-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Disciplina

398/.01/9

Soggetti

Folklore - Psychological aspects

Folklore - United States

Psychoanalysis and folklore - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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



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