"Living Alongside Death": Torture, Detention, and the Intersubjective Body.
How does torture work? Scholarly consensus seems to agree that torture reaches into the body to undermine the fundamental core of the person, but rarely do we specify the mechanisms by which it achieves this effect. I propose to answer this question through a focus on the conditions of detention and...
| Publicado en: | Political Theory Vol. 53; no. 5; pp. 684 - 710 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Oct2025
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