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Torture in the National Security Imagination
2024
Overview
Reassessing the role of torture in the context of police
violence, mass incarceration, and racial capitalism
At the midpoint of a century of imperial expansion, marked on
one end by the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902 and on the
other by post-9/11 debates over waterboarding, the United States
embraced a vision of \"national security torture,\" one contrived to
cut ties with domestic torture and mass racial terror and to
promote torture instead as a minimalist interrogation tool.
Torture in the National Security Imagination argues that
dispelling this vision requires a new set of questions about the
everyday work that torture does for U.S. society.
Stephanie Athey describes the role of torture in the
proliferation of a U.S. national security stance and imagination:
as U.S. domestic tortures were refined in the Philippines at the
turn of the twentieth century, then in mid-century
counterinsurgency theory and the networks that brought it home in
the form of law-and-order policing and mass incarceration.
Drawing on examples from news to military reports, legal
writing, and activist media, Athey shows that torture must be seen
as a colonial legacy with a corporate future, highlighting the
centrality of torture to the American empire-including its role in
colonial settlement, American Indian boarding schools, and police
violence. She brings to the fore the spectators and commentators,
the communal energy of violence, and the teams and target groups
necessary to a mass undertaking (equipment suppliers, contractors,
bureaucrats, university researchers, and profiteers) to demonstrate
that, at base, torture is propelled by local social functions,
conducted by networked professional collaborations, and publicly
supported by a durable social imaginary.
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Subject
ISBN
1517913284, 9781517913281, 1452970378, 9781452970370
