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Danielle Celermajer - The Prevention of Torture, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

The Prevention of Torture

An Ecological Approach

Av Danielle Celermajer

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There is an urgent need to analyze and assess how we prevent torture, against the background of a rigorous analysis of the factors that condition and sustain it. Drawing on rich empirical material from Sri Lanka and Nepal, The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach interrogates the worlds that produce torture in order to propose how to bring about systemic institutional and cultural change. Critics have decried human rights approaches' failure to attend to structural factors, but this book seeks to go beyond a 'stance of criticism' to take up the positive project of reimagining human rights theory and practice. It discusses key debates in human rights and political theory, as well as the challenges that advocates face in translating situational analyses into real world interventions. Danielle Celermajer develops a new, ecological framework for mapping the worlds that produce torture, and thereby develops prevention strategies.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-08-08
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 499 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 373
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781108454667
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Danielle Celermajer is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. She received a grant from the European Union to establish a Masters of Human Rights and Democratization in the Asia-Pacific course and a further one to work on the prevention of torture. Her books include Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apology (Cambridge, 2009), Power, Judgment and Political Evil: Hannah Arendt's Promise (with Andrew Schaap and Vrasidas Karalis, 2010), and A Cultural History of Law in the Modern Age (with Richard Sherwin, forthcoming).

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'Torture has been used in most countries, for the powerful to extract information from victims, and to punish dissidents for alleged wrong doings. To begin to understand this form of institutional violence we must realize it is less about aberrant individuals than it is about pathological social situations. In her powerful book, The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach, author Professor Danielle Celermajer has taken this situational hypothesis, and combined it with rich empirical research on the actual situations where systematic torture occurs. Most uniquely, she has devised a new analysis that can form the foundation of effective prevention strategies. This book is theoretically sophisticated, practically oriented and ethically penetrating. It is must reading as a major step forward in how we think about torture globally, and then actually go about preventing torture.' Philip G. Zimbardo, Stanford University, California

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