04525nam 2200781 a 450 991078866950332120230802002324.01-283-89655-90-8122-0523-510.9783/9780812205237(CKB)3240000000065367(OCoLC)822017880(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642744(SSID)ssj0000626498(PQKBManifestationID)11377294(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000626498(PQKBWorkID)10629269(PQKB)10294007(MiAaPQ)EBC3441992(OCoLC)786908346(MdBmJHUP)muse17969(DE-B1597)449499(OCoLC)778784462(OCoLC)984650476(DE-B1597)9780812205237(Au-PeEL)EBL3441992(CaPaEBR)ebr10642744(CaONFJC)MIL420905(EXLCZ)99324000000006536720110613d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThis side of silence[electronic resource] human rights, torture, and the recognition of cruelty /Tobias Kelly1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20121 online resource (229 p.)Pennsylvania Studies in Human RightsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-4373-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-211) and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --Chapter 1. Talking about Torture after the Human Rights Revolution --Chapter 2. The Legal Recognition of Torture Survivors --Chapter 3. Clinical Evidence about Torture --Chapter 4. Predicting the Future Risk of Torture --Chapter 5. Prosecuting Torture --Chapter 6. The Shame of Torture --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsWe are accustomed to thinking of torture as the purposeful infliction of cruelty by public officials, and we assume that lawyers and clinicians are best placed to speak about its causes and effects. However, it has not always been so. The category of torture is a very specific way of thinking about violence, and our current understandings of the term are rooted in recent twentieth-century history. In This Side of Silence, social anthropologist Tobias Kelly argues that the tensions between post-Cold War armed conflict, human rights activism, medical notions of suffering, and concerns over immigration have produced a distinctively new way of thinking about torture, which is saturated with notions of law and trauma. This Side of Silence asks what forms of suffering and cruelty can be acknowledged when looking at the world through the narrow legal category of torture. The book focuses on the recent history of Britain but draws wider comparative conclusions, tracing attempts to recognize survivors and perpetrators across the fields of asylum, criminal law, international human rights, and military justice. In this thorough and eloquent ethnography, Kelly avoids treating the legal prohibition of torture as the inevitable product of progress and yet does not seek to dismiss the real differences it has made in concrete political struggles. Based on extensive archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, the book argues that the problem of recognition rests not in the inability of the survivor to communicate but in our inability to listen and take responsibility for the injustice before us.Pennsylvania studies in human rights.TortureMoral and ethical aspectsGreat BritainPolitical prisonersAbuse ofGreat BritainPolitical prisonersLegal status, laws, etcGreat BritainSufferingPolitical aspectsGreat BritainHuman rightsGreat BritainHuman Rights.Law.Political Science.TortureMoral and ethical aspectsPolitical prisonersAbuse ofPolitical prisonersLegal status, laws, etc.SufferingPolitical aspectsHuman rights364.6/7Kelly Tobias1516214MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788669503321This side of silence3752541UNINA