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Anatomy of Torture
Does torture \"work?\" Can controversial
techniques such as waterboarding extract crucial and reliable
intelligence? Since 9/11, this question has been angrily debated in
the halls of power and the court of public opinion. In Anatomy
of Torture , Ron E. Hassner mines the archives of the Spanish
Inquisition to propose an answer that will frustrate and infuriate
both sides of the divide. The Inquisition's scribes recorded every
torment, every scream, and every confession in the torture chamber.
Their transcripts reveal that Inquisitors used torture deliberately
and meticulously, unlike the rash, improvised methods used by the
United States after 9/11. In their relentless pursuit of
underground Jewish communities in Spain and Mexico, the Inquisition
tortured in cold blood. But they treated any information extracted
with caution: torture was used to test information provided through
other means, not to uncover startling new evidence.
Hassner's findings in Anatomy of Torture have important
implications for ongoing torture debates. Rather than insist that
torture is ineffective, torture critics should focus their
attention on the morality of torture. If torture is evil, its
efficacy is irrelevant. At the same time, torture defenders cannot
advocate for torture as a counterterrorist \"quick fix\": torture has
never located, nor will ever locate, the hypothetical \"ticking
bomb\" that is frequently invoked to justify brutality in the name
of security.
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Bearing Witness
'In their discussion of torture, the contributors to this book write of what its victims cannot put into words and the work that has to be done with them to that end. Working with a victim's account of a traumatic experience goes much further than any debriefing technique would have us believe - above all, victims need someone to listen carefully to what they have to say; that person will be the first to offer a refuge for the pain of those who have no internal \"shelter\" of their own. The authors go on to discuss the kind of mental processing that can free victims from their unspeakable trauma, a trauma that has no framework in time nor words with which to express it.Under the skilful editorship of Andres Gautier and Anna Sabatini, this book asks of both psychoanalysts and politicians a question that goes right to the heart of their \"impossible professions\".- Rene Kaes, from the Foreword
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Way Down in the Hole
Based on ethnographic observations and interviews with prisoners, correctional officers, and civilian staff conducted in solitary confinement units, Way Down in the Hole explores the myriad ways in which daily, intimate interactions between those locked up twenty-four hours a day and the correctional officers charged with their care, custody, and control produce and reproduce hegemonic racial ideologies. Smith and Hattery explore the outcome of building prisons in rural, economically depressed communities, staffing them with white people who live in and around these communities, filling them with Black and brown bodies from urban areas and then designing the structure of solitary confinement units such that the most private, intimate daily bodily functions take place in very public ways. Under these conditions, it shouldn’t be surprising, but is rarely considered, that such daily interactions produce and reproduce white racial resentment among many correctional officers and fuel the racialized tensions that prisoners often describe as the worst forms of dehumanization. Way Down in the Hole concludes with recommendations for reducing the use of solitary confinement, reforming its use in a limited context, and most importantly, creating an environment in which prisoners and staff co-exist in ways that recognize their individual humanity and reduce rather than reproduce racial antagonisms and racial resentment.
Way Down the Hole Video 1 (https://youtu.be/UuAB63fhge0)
Way Down the Hole Video 2 (https://youtu.be/TwEuw1cTrcQ)
Way Down the Hole Video 3 (https://youtu.be/bOcBv_UnHIs)
Way Down the Hole Video 4 (https://youtu.be/cx_l1S8D77c)
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