Torture, intelligence and sousveillance in the war on terror : agenda-building struggles / / Vian Bakir
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| Autore: |
Bakir Vian <1971-, >
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| Titolo: |
Torture, intelligence and sousveillance in the war on terror : agenda-building struggles / / Vian Bakir
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (328 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.325/165 |
| Soggetto topico: | War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 - Moral and ethical aspects |
| Torture - Government policy - Great Britain | |
| Note generali: | First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Studying torture, intelligence and media manipulation in the war on terror -- Strategic political communication, intelligence and its discontents: Manipulating and challenging intelligence -- The rise of the torture-intelligence nexus -- The sousveillance failure of John Walker Lindh -- The surprise of sousveillance at Abu Ghraib and the struggle to contain it -- The persistence of sousveillance: Baha Mousa and torture in the British -- The absence of sousveillance: Binyam Mohamed and British intelligence agencies: complicity in torture -- Conclusion. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors in America and Britain) over their use of torture, first-hand or second-hand, to gain intelligence for the War on Terror. Exploring key agenda-building drivers that exposed the torture-intelligence nexus and presenting detailed case studies of key media events from the UK and USA, this insightful volume exposes dominant political discourses on the torture-for-intelligence policy. Whether in the form of unauthorized leaks, |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Torture, intelligence and sousveillance in the War on Terror |
| ISBN: | 1-317-00978-9 |
| 1-317-00979-7 | |
| 1-315-55082-2 | |
| 1-4094-2256-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910787321803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Classical and contemporary social theory.