Facing torture through art and the afterlives of war: behind the mask
The nexus between art and torture has a long history, yet the discipline of International Relations has largely failed to engage with this potent affective/aesthetic site and the critical opening up of unseen possibilities around “knowing” torture that such engagements engender. In response, this ch...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2023
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Contesting torture
Año: 2023, Páginas: 139-164 |
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| Sumario: | The nexus between art and torture has a long history, yet the discipline of International Relations has largely failed to engage with this potent affective/aesthetic site and the critical opening up of unseen possibilities around “knowing” torture that such engagements engender. In response, this chapter considers US veteran artist, Eli Wright, a former combat medic in Iraq, and his artwork, Torture Mask Triptych, in attempts to open up these possibilities. In its exploration of torture via a narrative approach, this chapter embraces a scholarship of discomfort to unveil multiple contestations, in terms of the sites and subjects under examination and the modes of (un)knowing it pursues. To view torture as/from a site of discomfort reveals troubling slippages in understandings of/around (the) tortured, torturer, and torturing that in turn lead to more subversive and destabilising critical insights around torture and its contestation in the War on Terror. |
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| Notas: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 163-164 |
| Descripción Física: | Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781032308692 |