Format:
Online-Ressource (365 p)
ISBN:
9780804778336
Content:
Detention and confinement-of both combatants and large groups of civilians-have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last century. Counterinsurgency theoreticians and practitioners explain this dizzying rise of detention camps, internment centers, and enclavisation by arguing that such actions "protect" populations. In this book, Laleh Khalili counters these arguments, telling the story of how this proliferation of concentration camps, strategic hamlets, "security walls," and offshore prisons has come to be.Time in the Shadows investigates the two major liberal counterinsu
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Forebears: Imperial and Colonial Counterinsurgencies; 2. Lessons and Borrowings: The United States and Israel; 3. From Island Prisons to Guantánamo Bay; 4. Invisible Prisoners, Proxy-Run Prisons: From Khiyam to Rendition; 5. Banal Procedures of Detention: Abu Ghraib and Its Ancestors; 6. From Concentration Camps of the Boer War to Palestinian Enclaves; 7. The Fracture of Good Order; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804783972
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804778329
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Time in the Shadows : Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
Language:
English
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