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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786196503321
• Autore: Khalili Laleh
• 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