The Toxicity of Torture: The Cultural Structure of US Political Discourse of Waterboarding.

Drawing on a qualitative analysis of 21 hearings held by the US Congress in 2007 and 2008, this manuscript examines the discursive work that proponents and opponents of waterboarding used to maintain and challenge the legitimacy of the practice. The juxtaposition reveals that US political discourse...

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Publicado en:	Social Forces Vol. 93; no. 1; pp. 383 - 405
Autor principal:	Del Rosso, Jared
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Oxford University Press / USA Sep2014
Materias:	United States. Central Intelligence Agency United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh, 1965- Zubaydah, Abu Nance, Malcolm Kleinman, Steven Abu Ghraib Prison Torture Human rights Waterboarding War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 United States politics & government, 21st century
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