Making Enemies: The Imagination of Torture in Chile and the United States
Through a comparison of the use of torture by Chile under General Pinochet and the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay, the author argues that one of torture's primary purposes is the fostering of a certain kind of social imagination of who our enemies are. The author then br...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
2006
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Theology today
Year: 2006, Volume: 63, Issue: 3, Pages: 307-323 |
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| Summary: | Through a comparison of the use of torture by Chile under General Pinochet and the United States in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay, the author argues that one of torture's primary purposes is the fostering of a certain kind of social imagination of who our enemies are. The author then briefly suggests how communities of faith can resist this imagination. |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057360606300303 |