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Talking About Torture: How Political Discourse Shapes the Debate
Jared Del Rosso
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Hardback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKVP; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 221 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attributed the incident to a few bad apples in the American military, exonerated high-ranking members of the George W. Bush administration, promoted Guantanamo as a model prison, and dismissed the illegality of the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation." By the end of the Bush administration, members of both major congressional parties had come to denounce enhanced interrogation as torture and argue for the closing of Guantanamo. What initiated this shift? In Talking About Torture, Jared Del Rosso reviews transcripts from congressional hearings and scholarship ... Read more
When the photographs depicting torture at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison were released in 2004, U.S. politicians attributed the incident to a few bad apples in the American military, exonerated high-ranking members of the George W. Bush administration, promoted Guantanamo as a model prison, and dismissed the illegality of the CIA's use of "enhanced interrogation." By the end of the Bush administration, members of both major congressional parties had come to denounce enhanced interrogation as torture and argue for the closing of Guantanamo. What initiated this shift? In Talking About Torture, Jared Del Rosso reviews transcripts from congressional hearings and scholarship ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231170925
SKU
V9780231170925
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About Jared Del Rosso
Jared Del Rosso is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver.
Reviews for Talking About Torture: How Political Discourse Shapes the Debate
Jared Del Rosso takes a discourse-analytic, social-constructionist approach to understanding the meaning of 'torture,' developing well-known and powerful analytic traditions to shed light on an important and controversial issue that is still topical today. His book is interesting and enlightening.
James Holstein, Marquette University By tracing the evolution of Congress's conversations on topics ranging from Abu Ghraib to waterboarding, ... Read more
James Holstein, Marquette University By tracing the evolution of Congress's conversations on topics ranging from Abu Ghraib to waterboarding, ... Read more