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TIME IN THE SHADOWS
CONFINEMENT IN COUNTERINSURGENCIES |
| By: |
Laleh Khalili |
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Paperback |
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£25.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0804778337 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780804778336 |
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| Publisher: |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 November, 2012 |
| Pages: |
363 |
| Description: |
Time in the Shadows examines the counterinsurgencies of our time, tracing their ancestry, to offer a critical reading of the mechanisms by which today's counterinsurgents?foremost the United States and Israel?reproduce illiberal regimes of domination while noisily declaring their liberal intent to liberate and improve. |
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Detention and confinement?of both combatants and large groups of civilians?have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last century. Counterinsurgency theoreticians and practitioners explain this dizzying rise of detention camps, internment centers, and enclavisation by arguing that such actions "protect" populations. In this book, Laleh Khalili counters these arguments, telling the story of how this proliferation of concentration camps, strategic hamlets, "security walls," and offshore prisons has come to be.Time in the Shadows investigates the two major liberal counterinsurgencies of our day: Israeli occupation of Palestine and the U.S. War on Terror. In rich detail, the book investigates Abu Ghraib, Guant?namo Bay, CIA black sites, the Khiam Prison, and Gaza, among others, and links them to a history of colonial counterinsurgencies from the Boer War and the U.S. Indian wars, to Vietnam, the British small wars in Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Cyprus, and the French pacification of Indochina and Algeria.Khalili deftly demonstrates that whatever the form of incarceration?visible or invisible, offshore or inland, containing combatants or civilians?liberal states have consistently acted illiberally in their counterinsurgency confinements. As our tactics of war have shifted beyond slaughter to elaborate systems of detention, liberal states have warmed to the pursuit of asymmetric wars. Ultimately, Khalili confirms that as tactics of counterinsurgency have been rendered more "humane," they have also increasingly encouraged policymakers to willingly choose to wage wars. |
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US |
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Stanford University Press |
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