Sacred Men - Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam (Paperback)

Between 1944 and 1949 the United States Navy held a war crimes tribunal that tried Japanese nationals and members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro population who had worked for Japan's military government. In Sacred Men Keith L. Camacho traces the tribunal's legacy and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's notions of bare life and Chamorro concepts of retribution, Camacho demonstrates how the U.S. tribunal used and justified the imprisonment, torture, murder, and exiling of accused Japanese and Chamorro war criminals in order to institute a new American political order. This U.S. disciplinary logic in Guam, Camacho argues, continues to directly inform the ideology used to justify the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the torture and enhanced interrogation of enemy combatants, and the American carceral state.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Global and Insurgent Legalities
Release date:	November 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Keith L. Camacho
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-0634-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Indigenous peoples Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > War crimes > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	1-4780-0634-X
Barcode:	9781478006343

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