Sociology of Torture

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_402
dc.creator	Gjergji Iside
dc.title	Sociology of Torture. Image and Practice of Postmodern Torment
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	This work addresses torture with the ambition to strengthen a properly sociological approach to it by bringing to the fore the social history of the tortured, also through the fundamental contribution of the political economy. This category is not utilised in an abstract way, it is brought into the picture through the social history of the bodies of those tortured. These bodies are not considered mere biological bodies subjugated by ‘power’, but rather bodies with a voice, bodies capable of revealing their social standing. Placing the bodies’ class at the centre of the analysis allows us to fully grasp the sociological substance of torture, to understand the underlying reasons for its historical persistence and constant diffusion. The book explores torture in a threefold way: firstly by analysing the image of torture as an effective hermeneutic tool of late modernity; secondly by adopting a historical perspective to identify structural elements and metamorphoses; thirdly by examining the concrete practices of torture to enable the establishment of a mutual relationship between history and biography.
dc.relation.ispartof	Società e trasformazioni sociali
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-391-5
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2019-12-05
dc.dateAccepted	2019-11-27
dc.dateSubmitted	2019-11-20
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-391-5/
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9085
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9689
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-438-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-391-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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Image and Practice of Postmodern Torment

Iside Gjergji Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

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abstract

This work addresses torture with the ambition to strengthen a properly sociological approach to it by bringing to the fore the social history of the tortured, also through the fundamental contribution of the political economy. This category is not utilised in an abstract way, it is brought into the picture through the social history of the bodies of those tortured. These bodies are not considered mere biological bodies subjugated by ‘power’, but rather bodies with a voice, bodies capable of revealing their social standing. Placing the bodies’ class at the centre of the analysis allows us to fully grasp the sociological substance of torture, to understand the underlying reasons for its historical persistence and constant diffusion.

The book explores torture in a threefold way: firstly by analysing the image of torture as an effective hermeneutic tool of late modernity; secondly by adopting a historical perspective to identify structural elements and metamorphoses; thirdly by examining the concrete practices of torture to enable the establishment of a mutual relationship between history and biography.

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Dec. 5, 2019

Accepted

Nov. 27, 2019

Submitted

Nov. 20, 2019

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978-88-6969-438-7

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978-88-6969-391-5

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