Witnessing Torture : Perspectives of Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers / edited by Alexandra S. Moore, Elizabeth Swanson.
Moore, Alexandra S., editor.; Swanson, Elizabeth, editor.
2018
PN695-PN779
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Title
Witnessing Torture : Perspectives of Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers / edited by Alexandra S. Moore, Elizabeth Swanson.
ISBN
9783319749655
331974965X
3319749641
9783319749648
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74965-5
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XL, 248 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-74965-5 doi
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PN695-PN779
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.675
Summary
This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber. By dismantling the rhetorical divide that typically separates survivors' suffering from human rights workers' expertise, contributors engage with the personal, professional, and institutional dimensions of torture and redress. Essays in this volume consider torture from diverse locations - the Philippines, Argentina, Sudan, and Guantánamo, among others. From across the globe, contributors witness both individual pain and institutional complicity; the challenges of building communities of healing across linguistic and national divides; and the role of the law, art, writing, and teaching in representing and responding to torture.
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Moore, Alexandra S., editor.
Swanson, Elizabeth, editor.
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Palgrave studies in life writing.
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Alone at night / Orlando P. Tizon
Prologue / Elizabeth Swanson
Editors' introduction / Alexandra S. Moore, Elizabeth Swanson
Part I. Torture in context and translation. 1. Torture: the catastrophe of a bond / Carlos Alberto Arestivo
2. Torture in an historical context: notes from Sudan / Mohamed Elgadi
3. The unspeakable agony of inflicted pain: torture, betrayal, redress / Robert Francis Garcia
4. Translating trauma, witnessing survival / Laurie Ball Cooper
Part II. Witnessing torture and recovery: survivors, health professionals, institutions. 5. The role of health professionals in torture treatment / Linda A. Piwowarczyk
6. Assessing the treatment of torture: balancing quantifiable with intangible metrics / Orlando P. Tizon
7. The little red cabinet of tears: the impact upon treatment providers of bearing witness to torture / Judy B. Okawa
8. Beyond institutional betrayal: when the professional is personal / Ellen Gerrity
Part III. Disappearance and torture, redress and representation. 9. Everardo and the CIA's long-term torture practices / Jennifer Harbury
10. Survivors and the origin of the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance / Patricio Rice
11. The tenacity of memory: art in the aftermath of atrocity / Claudia Bernardi
12. Teaching about torture, or, reading between the lines in the humanities / Madelaine Hron
13. Legal appeal: habeas lawyers narrate Guantánamo life / Terri Tomsky
14. Did we survive torture? / Mansoor Adayfi
Epilogue: From solitude to solidarity / Dianna Ortiz, O.S.U.

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