Torture and torturous violence : transcending definitions of torture /
With growing acknowledgement that torture is too narrowly defined in law, this book offers a nuanced reflection on the definition of torturous violence and its implications for survivors. Drawing on a decade of research with psychologists and women seeking asylum, Canning sets out the implications o...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover -- Torture and Torturous Violence: Transcending Definitions of Torture -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Outline of Book -- Introduction: Why 'Torture and Torturous Violence'? -- Introduction -- Outlining key legal definitions of torture -- Addressing the complexities of torture and torturous violence -- Methods and methodologies -- A note on positionality and debates on the legitimacy of torture -- Structure of this book -- 1 Outlining the Definitional Boundaries of 'Torture' | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Introduction -- 'Torture': definitional developments and limitations -- Moving towards three epistemological perspectives -- 1. Orthodox legalism (strictly following legal conventions) -- Role of the state -- Systematic physical and psychological violence -- Adhering to legal conventions, including changing as they evolve -- 2. Legalist hybridity (taking a flexible approach between the application of legal conventions and wider definitions of torture and trauma) -- The archetypal narrative: multifarious forms of violence can be torture, but torture is separately definable | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Motivation matters -- so does severity and impact -- Survivor narratives do not always encompass the term 'torture', regardless of legal definitions -- 3. Experiential epistemologies (building knowledge on experiences of survivors) -- Defined by experience -- Definitions of torture may be organizationally bound to legal norms, but not bound to individual perspectives -- Where does 'torture' take place? Gendering torturous spatiality -- Torture as a social contract -- Group torture, witnessing and surveillance -- The employment of medical practitioners and psychologists -- Multiple perpetrator rape | |
| 505 | 8 | |a The expanding realms and recognitions of torture -- Conclusion -- 2 'Wandering Throughout Lives': Outlining Forms and Impacts of Torture -- Introduction -- Prologue: why outline forms of torture? -- Typologies of torture: situating mechanisms of physical and psychological violence -- Forms of infliction: what do we mean when we talk about 'torture'? -- The glocalization of torture -- From repetitive beatings to imaginative inquisition -- Psychological torture -- The move to 'clean' torture -- Deliberate permanency: when histories of torture lack an ending -- The impacts and effects of torture | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Impacts reported by practitioners working with survivors -- Psychological -- Physical and somatic -- 'Wandering throughout lives': social, cultural and relational -- Conclusion -- 3 'I Wouldn't Call it Torture': Conceptualizing Torturous Violence -- Introduction: thinking beyond states and state institutions -- The legal and epistemological expansion of definitions of violence -- What is torturous violence? -- Moving from who perpetrates violence and why, to the infliction and impact of violence -- 'It's non-stop. The violence continues': domestic and interpersonal violence as torturous | |
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