Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of France's
"Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen," this book
looks in depth at the use of torture during the French-Algerian War
(1954-1962) to reveal the failure of that liberal democratic state
to uphold its obligations on rights. Rita Maran examines the
Mission Civilisatrice ideology that justified the routine use of
torture during that war and points out that human rights violations
traceable to ideology occur irrespective of a state's political
system or tradition of rights. The book contrasts the routinization
of torture with the contemporaneous global development of norms to
assure human rights and abolish torture. Maran concludes that
reliance on a state's avowedly benevolent traditions of rights is
not necessarily sufficient to protect individuals against
state-directed violence, and that international law on human rights
can provide significant protection.
The book begins with a brief history of torture in France up to
the French-Algerian War. Torture, international human rights law,
and civilizing mission ideology are then described and defined. The
major portion of the book is devoted to interpretation of the
discourse of exemplary people from three sectors of French
society--government, the military, and the intellectuals--to
demonstrate that reliance on the civilizing mission ideology
rationalized the use of torture. Torture is a source of valuable
and stimulating ideas for political scientists, historians,
lawyers, social psychologists, journalists, ethicists, scholars of
colonialism and colonial discourse, and all concerned with human
rights as part of international discourse.
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