The Prevention of Torture
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The Prevention of Torture

An Ecological Approach

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The Prevention of Torture

An Ecological Approach

About this book

There is an urgent need to analyze and assess how we prevent torture, against the background of a rigorous analysis of the factors that condition and sustain it. Drawing on rich empirical material from Sri Lanka and Nepal, The Prevention of Torture: An Ecological Approach interrogates the worlds that produce torture in order to propose how to bring about systemic institutional and cultural change. Critics have decried human rights approaches' failure to attend to structural factors, but this book seeks to go beyond a 'stance of criticism' to take up the positive project of reimagining human rights theory and practice. It discusses key debates in human rights and political theory, as well as the challenges that advocates face in translating situational analyses into real world interventions. Danielle Celermajer develops a new, ecological framework for mapping the worlds that produce torture, and thereby develops prevention strategies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. Vignette 1
  11. 1 The Principal Approaches to Preventing Torture
  12. Vignette 2
  13. 2 How Effective Has Torture Prevention Been?
  14. Vignette 3
  15. 3 The Situational Conditions of Institutional Violence
  16. Vignette 4
  17. 4 The Production of Worlds of Torture
  18. Vignette 5
  19. 5 Agents, Structures, and the Social Imaginary of Human Rights
  20. Vignette 6
  21. 6 Taking Situational Theory to the Field
  22. Vignette 7
  23. 7 The Promises and Hazards of Practice
  24. Vignette 8
  25. Conclusion
  26. References
  27. Index