UID:
almahu_9949685689102882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 186 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781529218459 (ebook)
Content:
With growing acknowledgement that torture is too narrowly defined in law, this book offers a nuanced reflection on the definition of torturous violence and its implications for survivors. Drawing on a decade of research with psychologists and women seeking asylum, Canning sets out the implications of social silencing of torture.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jan 2024).
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Front Cover -- Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Outline of Book -- Introduction: Why 'Torture and Torturous Violence'? -- Introduction -- Outlining key legal definitions of torture -- Addressing the complexities of torture and torturous violence -- Methods and methodologies -- A note on positionality and debates on the legitimacy of torture -- Structure of this book -- 1 Outlining the Definitional Boundaries of 'Torture' -- Introduction -- 'Torture': definitional developments and limitations -- Moving towards three epistemological perspectives -- 1. Orthodox legalism (strictly following legal conventions) -- Role of the state -- Systematic physical and psychological violence -- Adhering to legal conventions, including changing as they evolve -- 2. Legalist hybridity (taking a flexible approach between the application of legal conventions and wider definitions of torture and trauma) -- The archetypal narrative: multifarious forms of violence can be torture, but torture is separately definable -- Motivation matters - so does severity and impact -- Survivor narratives do not always encompass the term 'torture', regardless of legal definitions -- 3. Experiential epistemologies (building knowledge on experiences of survivors) -- Defined by experience -- Definitions of torture may be organizationally bound to legal norms, but not bound to individual perspectives -- Where does 'torture' take place? Gendering torturous spatiality -- Torture as a social contract -- Group torture, witnessing and surveillance -- The employment of medical practitioners and psychologists -- Multiple perpetrator rape -- The expanding realms and recognitions of torture -- Conclusion.
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2 'Wandering Throughout Lives': Outlining Forms and Impacts of Torture -- Introduction -- Prologue: why outline forms of torture? -- Typologies of torture: situating mechanisms of physical and psychological violence -- Forms of infliction: what do we mean when we talk about 'torture'? -- The glocalization of torture -- From repetitive beatings to imaginative inquisition -- Psychological torture -- The move to 'clean' torture -- Deliberate permanency: when histories of torture lack an ending -- The impacts and effects of torture -- Impacts reported by practitioners working with survivors -- Psychological -- Physical and somatic -- 'Wandering throughout lives': social, cultural and relational -- Conclusion -- 3 'I Wouldn't Call it Torture': Conceptualizing Torturous Violence -- Introduction: thinking beyond states and state institutions -- The legal and epistemological expansion of definitions of violence -- What is torturous violence? -- Moving from who perpetrates violence and why, to the infliction and impact of violence -- 'It's non-stop. The violence continues': domestic and interpersonal violence as torturous -- Childhood and families: recognizing trajectories of torturous violence -- "I wouldn't call it torture, though": conflict within discourses -- Expanding the realms of infliction: witnessing, borders and sociospatial shifts -- Spatial continuums of torturous violence through bordering -- A note on discourse: the outcome of being gender neutral is not neutrality -- Conclusion -- 4 Sexualized Torture and Sexually Torturous Violence -- Introduction -- Why set this chapter as a standalone form of torture and torturous violence? -- Sexualized violence, sexualized torture and sexually torturous violence -- Saying and seeing sexualized violence: linguistic barriers to recognition.
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International developments on the recognition of sexualized violence as war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture -- Sexualized violence as torture when perpetrated by state actors in state facilities -- Sexualized violence as torture when perpetrated by non-state actors, outside of state institutions -- Sexualized violence against men and boys -- Forms of violence against men -- Masculinity, sexuality and violence -- Sexualized violence and sexually torturous violence in broader social narratives -- Cavity searches as state-sanctioned sexualized torture -- Conclusion: moving from intent to effect? -- 5 Experiential Epistemologies: Embedding the Lived Experience of Women Survivors -- Introduction -- Women's words in a chamber of echoes -- Intersectional continuums of experiential knowledge: insights from survivors -- Antonia -- Faiza -- Jazmine -- Mahira -- Asma -- Nour -- Recognizing torturous violence and its impacts -- Making the personal political in practice -- Conclusion -- 6 Unsilencing -- Introduction: unpacking the shroud of silence -- Architectures of silence -- The potential implications of unsilencing -- Conclusion -- 7 Addressing and Responding to Torture and Torturous Violence -- Introduction -- Addressing social silence, increasing consciousness: societal gaps in the recognition of trajectories of violence -- The significance of intersectional feminism in consciousness, practice and approach -- Separating sexual experiences from experiences of sexualized violence and torture in language -- Barriers to supporting refugee survivors: the compounding of trauma through border harms -- Support is impeded by broader structural architectures of bordering and asylum systems -- Recognizing and addressing impacts on practitioners as well as survivors -- Practitioner ideas for best supporting survivors: what would work in an ideal world?.
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Reflecting on inequalities in wealth and finance distribution -- Conclusion -- Suggested further reading -- Responding to torture and survivors of trauma -- Undertaking research in sensitive topics -- Model toolkits for understanding asylum processes -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781529218428
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781529218459/type/BOOK
