Torture, intelligence and sousveillance in the War on Terror: agenda-building struggles
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1. Verfasser: Bakir, Vian (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Farnham Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013
Schriftenreihe:Classical and contemporary social theory
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Beschreibung:Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Studying Torture, Intelligence and Media Manipulation in the War on Terror; 2 Strategic Political Communication, Intelligence and its Discontents; 3 The Rise of the Torture-Intelligence Nexus; 4 The Sousveillance Failure of John Walker Lindh; 5 The Surprise of Sousveillance at Abu Ghraib and the Struggle to Contain it; 6 The Persistence of Sousveillance: Baha Mousa and Torture in the British Military; 7 The Absence of Sousveillance; 8 Conclusion; References; Index
This book examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors) over their use of torture to gain intelligence for the War on Terror. Exploring the agenda-building drivers that exposed the torture-intelligence nexus and presenting case studies of key media events from the UK and USA, it examines dominant political discourses on the torture-for-intelligence policy and evaluates various modes of resistance to governments' attempts at strategic political communication, with particular attention to 'sousveillance': community-based record
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (328 pages)
ISBN:9781409422563
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