Our nation unhinged [[electronic resource] ] : the human consequences of the War on Terror / / Peter Jan Honigsberg ; foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky |
Autore | Honigsberg Peter Jan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
Disciplina | 345.73/056 |
Soggetto topico |
Prisoners of war - Legal status, laws, etc - United States
Detention of persons - United States Human rights - Government policy - United States War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 Prisoners of war - Legal status, laws, etc - Cuba - Guantanamo Bay Naval Base Combatants and noncombatants (International law) |
Soggetto non controllato |
2001
21st century afghanistan america american judicial system american policy american soldiers bush administration criminal investigation dark discussion books engaging foreign policy guantanamo human rights abuses hunger strikers imprisonment injustices intense litigation men at war national security nonfiction political september 11 terrorism terrorist imprisonment tragedies trial us constitution war on terror warfare |
ISBN |
1-282-77249-X
9786612772498 0-520-94312-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- The Cuban Iguana and American Jurisprudence -- Foreword -- Opening -- INTRODUCING THE TERM ENEMY COMBATANT -- JUSTIFYING HARSH INTERROGATIONS AND TORTURE -- ASSERTING ABSOLUTE POWER AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF -- YASER HAMDI, AMERICAN CITIZEN -- JOSE PADILLA, AMERICAN CITIZEN -- ALI SALEH KALAH AL MARRI , AMERICAN RESIDENT -- PREVENTIVE DETENTION -- I. Guantanamo and the Road to the Supreme Court, 2002 - 2004 -- II. Inhumane Treatment of Detainees at Guantanamo -- III. The Administration under Siege, 2004 - 2006 -- IV. Winds of Change, 2006 - 2008 -- THE EVOLUTION OF EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION -- CASE STUDY: KHALID EL-MASRI -- CASE STUDY: MAHER ARAR -- CASE STUDY: ABU OMAR -- VIOLATING HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS -- JOHN WALKER LINDH -- RICHARD COLVIN REID -- ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI -- THE LACKAWANNA SIX -- Closing -- Addendum: Visiting Guantanamo Bay -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788802603321 |
Honigsberg Peter Jan | ||
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Postcolonial disorders [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good ... [et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (478 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/61 |
Altri autori (Persone) | GoodMary-Jo DelVecchio |
Collana | Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity |
Soggetto topico |
Medical anthropology
Diseases - Social aspects Colonization - Social aspects Globalization - Social aspects Subjectivity |
Soggetto non controllato |
aids
alterity anthropology asylum balkan territory burma colonialism conspiracy constitution of the subject emasculation gender studies haiti history human rights abuses indonesia infant death infectious disease interpretive politics intervention ireland israel and palestine lombok madness marginality medical anthropology medical migrants political postcolonialism psychiatry republic of congo southwest china spain subjection subjectivity vietnam vietnamese refugees violence |
ISBN |
1-4356-5369-6
9786611385668 1-281-38566-2 0-520-94102-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Postcolonial Disorders: Reflections On Subjectivity In The Contemporary World -- 1. Madness And The Politically Real: Reflections On Violence In Postdictatorial Spain -- 2. Indonesia Sakit: Indonesian Disorders And The Subjective Experience And Interpretive Politics Of Contemporary Indonesian Artists -- 3. The Political Dimensions Of Emasculation: Fantasy, Conspiracy, And Estrangement Among Populist Leaders In Post-New Order Lombok, Indonesia -- 4. Haunting Ghosts: Madness, Gender, And Ensekirite In Haiti In The Democratic Era -- 5. Laboratory Of Intervention: The Humanitarian Governance Of The Postcommunist Balkan Territories -- 6. Everyday Aids Practices: Contestations Of Borders And Infectious Disease In Southwest China -- 7. Of Maids And Prostitutes: Indonesian Female Migrants In The New Asian Hinterlands -- 8. Ambivalent Inquiry: Dilemmas Of Aids In The Republic Of Congo -- 9. To Live With What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable, Ii: Caught In The Borderlands Of Palestine/Israel -- 10. The Mucker War: A History Of Violence And Silence -- 11. Institutional Persons And Personal Institutions: The Asylum And Marginality In Rural Ireland -- 12. The Knot Of The Soul: Postcolonial Conundrums, Madness, And The Imagination -- 13. Consuming Grief: Infant Death In The Postcolonial Time Of Intervention -- 14. Postcoloniality As The Aftermath Of Terror Among Vietnamese Refugees -- 15. Cross-Cultural Psychiatry In Medical-Legal Documentation Of Suffering: Human Rights Abuses Involving Transnational Corporations And The Yadana Pipeline Project In Burma -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782406803321 |
Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Thinking globally : a global studies reader / / edited by Mark Juergensmeyer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (453 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.48/2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | JuergensmeyerMark |
Soggetto topico | Globalization |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologist
anthropology compact chapter economist emerging field environmental crises global economy global studies human rights abuses illegal drug trade nation-state nationalism new communications new media political social activist professor sex trafficking social media sociology student theoretical perspective transnational ideologies xenophobia |
ISBN | 0-520-95801-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | part I. Introduction -- part II. The march of globalization, by region -- part III. Transnational global issues. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790826303321 |
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Thinking globally : a global studies reader / / edited by Mark Juergensmeyer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (453 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.48/2 |
Altri autori (Persone) | JuergensmeyerMark |
Soggetto topico | Globalization |
Soggetto non controllato |
anthropologist
anthropology compact chapter economist emerging field environmental crises global economy global studies human rights abuses illegal drug trade nation-state nationalism new communications new media political social activist professor sex trafficking social media sociology student theoretical perspective transnational ideologies xenophobia |
ISBN | 0-520-95801-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | part I. Introduction -- part II. The march of globalization, by region -- part III. Transnational global issues. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818327503321 |
Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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