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This Side of Silence - Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty (Paperback)
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This Side of Silence - Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty (Paperback)
Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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We are accustomed to thinking of torture as the purposeful
infliction of cruelty by public officials, and we assume that
lawyers and clinicians are best placed to speak about its causes
and effects. However, it has not always been so. The category of
torture is a very specific way of thinking about violence, and our
current understandings of the term are rooted in recent
twentieth-century history. In This Side of Silence, social
anthropologist Tobias Kelly argues that the tensions between
post-Cold War armed conflict, human rights activism, medical
notions of suffering, and concerns over immigration have produced a
distinctively new way of thinking about torture, which is saturated
with notions of law and trauma. This Side of Silence asks what
forms of suffering and cruelty can be acknowledged when looking at
the world through the narrow legal category of torture. The book
focuses on the recent history of Britain but draws wider
comparative conclusions, tracing attempts to recognize survivors
and perpetrators across the fields of asylum, criminal law,
international human rights, and military justice. In this thorough
and eloquent ethnography, Kelly avoids treating the legal
prohibition of torture as the inevitable product of progress and
yet does not seek to dismiss the real differences it has made in
concrete political struggles. Based on extensive archival research
and ethnographic fieldwork, the book argues that the problem of
recognition rests not in the inability of the survivor to
communicate but in our inability to listen and take responsibility
for the injustice before us.
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