Notes on Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Torture, Democracy, and the Human Body 1
5. 1. Torture and Democracy: What Now? 25
6. 2. Now That We’ve Tortured: Image, Guilt, Consequence 46
7. 3. “We Are All Torturers Now”: Accountability after Abu Ghraib 67
8. 4. Dying Is Not Permitted: Sovereignty, Biopower, and Force-Feeding at Guantánamo Bay 101
9. 5. The Torture Device: Debate and Archetype 129
10. 6. Specters of the Muselmann: Guantánamo Bay Penalogical Theme Park and the Torture of Omar Khadr 158
11. 7. This Fragile Body: Susan Crile’s Abu Ghraib: Abuse of Power 188
12. 8. Sri Lanka: Landscapes of Massacre 215
13. Bibliography 245
14. Notes on Contributors 265
15. Index 269