This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty
Language: English
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
Series: Book 14 of 111 - Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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This Side of Silence is an anthropological examination of the tension involved in attempts to recognize torture, and the implications that this has for the types of perpetrator that can be held accountable and particular survivors that can be protected. Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318. . 2013. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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- Title
- This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty
- Author
- Tobias Kelly
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Publication year
- 2013
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- New
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- Soft cover
- Language
- English
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- 0812222814
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- 9780812222814
- Series
- Book 14 of 111: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
We are accustomed to thinking of torture as the purposeful infliction of cruelty by public officials, and we assume that lawyers and clinicians are best placed to speak about its causes and effects. However, it has not always been so. The category of torture is a very specific way of thinking about violence, and our current understandings of the term are rooted in recent twentieth-century history. In This Side of Silence, social anthropologist Tobias Kelly argues that the tensions between post-Cold War armed conflict, human rights activism, medical notions of suffering, and concerns over immigration have produced a distinctively new way of thinking about torture, which is saturated with notions of law and trauma.
This Side of Silence asks what forms of suffering and cruelty can be acknowledged when looking at the world through the narrow legal category of torture. The book focuses on the recent history of Britain but draws wider comparative conclusions, tracing attempts to recognize survivors and perpetrators across the fields of asylum, criminal law, international human rights, and military justice. In this thorough and eloquent ethnography, Kelly avoids treating the legal prohibition of torture as the inevitable product of progress and yet does not seek to dismiss the real differences it has made in concrete political struggles. Based on extensive archival research and ethnographic fieldwork, the book argues that the problem of recognition rests not in the inability of the survivor to communicate but in our inability to listen and take responsibility for the injustice before us.
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