LEADER 04354nam 22006013 450 001 9911008938803321 005 20250106021431.0 010 $a9781452970370 010 $a1452970378 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30482234 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30482234 035 $a(CKB)29514726100041 035 $a(OCoLC)1416891941 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_111783 035 $a(OCoLC)1416747798 035 $a(EXLCZ)9929514726100041 100 $a20240106d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTorture in the National Security Imagination 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aMinneapolis :$cUniversity of Minnesota Press,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2023. 215 $a1 online resource (339 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Athey, Stephanie Torture in the National Security Imagination Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,c2024 9781517913281 327 $aPrologue: "A nasty business" in the public press -- Introduction: U.S. torture, prisons, police -- Anecdote : Abdul Hakim Murad and torture in four dimensions -- Rationale : the refashioning of colonial violence-Roger Trinquier, Jean Larteguy, and Edward Lansdale -- Archetype : mistaking the plurals of torture -- Technique : the waterboard spectacle -- Perpetrators : Sabrina Harman, Tony Lagouranis, and crafted confession -- Networks : deploying the Salvador Option -- Epilogue: Complicity. 330 $aReassessing the role of torture in the context of police violence, mass incarceration, and racial capitalism At the midpoint of a century of imperial expansion, marked on one end by the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902 and on the other by post-9/11 debates over waterboarding, the United States embraced a vision of "national security torture," one contrived to cut ties with domestic torture and mass racial terror and to promote torture instead as a minimalist interrogation tool. Torture in the National Security Imagination argues that dispelling this vision requires a new set of questions about the everyday work that torture does for U.S. society. Stephanie Athey describes the role of torture in the proliferation of a U.S. national security stance and imagination: as U.S. domestic tortures were refined in the Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century, then in mid-century counterinsurgency theory and the networks that brought it home in the form of law-and-order policing and mass incarceration. Drawing on examples from news to military reports, legal writing, and activist media, Athey shows that torture must be seen as a colonial legacy with a corporate future, highlighting the centrality of torture to the American empire--including its role in colonial settlement, American Indian boarding schools, and police violence. She brings to the fore the spectators and commentators, the communal energy of violence, and the teams and target groups necessary to a mass undertaking (equipment suppliers, contractors, bureaucrats, university researchers, and profiteers) to demonstrate that, at base, torture is propelled by local social functions, conducted by networked professional collaborations, and publicly supported by a durable social imaginary. 606 $aTorture$xGovernment policy$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aNational security$zUnited States 606 $aPolice brutality$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aCounterinsurgency$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism$2bisacsh 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTorture$xGovernment policy$xHistory. 615 0$aNational security 615 0$aPolice brutality$xHistory. 615 0$aCounterinsurgency$xHistory 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General 676 $a364.6750973 686 $aPOL045000$aPOL011000$2bisacsh 700 $aAthey$b Stephanie$01826092 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008938803321 996 $aTorture in the National Security Imagination$94394013 997 $aUNINA