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Time in the Shadows : Confinement in Counterinsurgencies.

Von: Khalili, LalehMaterialtyp: TextTextSprache: EnglischVerlag: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2012Copyright-Datum: ©2012Auflage: 1st edBeschreibung: 1 online resource (365 pages)Inhaltstyp: Text Medientyp: Computermedien Datenträgertyp: Online ResourceISBN: 9780804783972Schlagwörter: Detention of persons -- Israel | Counterinsurgency -- Israel | War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 | Detention of persons -- United States | Counterinsurgency -- United States | Detention of persons -- History | Counterinsurgency -- HistoryGenre/Form: Fernzugriff | Andere physische Formen: Print version: : Time in the ShadowsOnline-Ressourcen: Volltext
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Forebears: Imperial and Colonial Counterinsurgencies -- 2. Lessons and Borrowings: The United States and Israel -- 3. From Island Prisons to Guantánamo Bay -- 4. Invisible Prisoners, Proxy-Run Prisons: From Khiyam to Rendition -- 5. Banal Procedures of Detention: Abu Ghraib and Its Ancestors -- 6. From Concentration Camps of the Boer War to Palestinian Enclaves -- 7. The Fracture of Good Order -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Zusammenfassung: Time in the Shadows examines the counterinsurgencies of our time, tracing their ancestry, to offer a critical reading of the mechanisms by which today's counterinsurgents--foremost the United States and Israel--reproduce illiberal regimes of domination while noisily declaring their liberal intent to liberate and improve.

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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Forebears: Imperial and Colonial Counterinsurgencies -- 2. Lessons and Borrowings: The United States and Israel -- 3. From Island Prisons to Guantánamo Bay -- 4. Invisible Prisoners, Proxy-Run Prisons: From Khiyam to Rendition -- 5. Banal Procedures of Detention: Abu Ghraib and Its Ancestors -- 6. From Concentration Camps of the Boer War to Palestinian Enclaves -- 7. The Fracture of Good Order -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Time in the Shadows examines the counterinsurgencies of our time, tracing their ancestry, to offer a critical reading of the mechanisms by which today's counterinsurgents--foremost the United States and Israel--reproduce illiberal regimes of domination while noisily declaring their liberal intent to liberate and improve.

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