{"product_id":"torture-in-the-national-security-imagination-9781517913281","title":"Torture in the National Security Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReassessing the role of torture in the context of police violence, mass incarceration, and racial capitalism\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At the midpoint of a century of imperial expansion, marked on one end by the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902 and on the other by post-9\/11 debates over waterboarding, the United States embraced a vision of \"national security torture,\" one contrived to cut ties with domestic torture and mass racial terror and to promote torture instead as a minimalist interrogation tool. \u003ci\u003eTorture in the National Security Imagination \u003c\/i\u003eargues that dispelling this vision requires a new set of questions about the everyday work that torture does for U.S. society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Stephanie Athey describes the role of torture in the proliferation of a U.S. national security stance and imagination: as U.S. domestic tortures were refined in the Philippines at the turn of the twentieth century, then in mid-century counterinsurgency theory and the networks that brought it home in the form of law-and-order policing and mass incarceration. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Drawing on examples from news to military reports, legal writing, and activist media, Athey shows that torture must be seen as a colonial legacy with a corporate future, highlighting the centrality of torture to the American empire--including its role in colonial settlement, American Indian boarding schools, and police violence. She brings to the fore the spectators and commentators, the communal energy of violence, and the teams and target groups necessary to a mass undertaking (equipment suppliers, contractors, bureaucrats, university researchers, and profiteers) to demonstrate that, at base, torture is propelled by local social functions, conducted by networked professional collaborations, and publicly supported by a durable social imaginary. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Stephanie Athey is professor of cultural studies at Lasell University in Greater Boston and editor of \u003ci\u003eSharpened Edge: Women of Color, Resistance, and Writing\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50394656342290,"sku":"9781517913281","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_95da1af7-28af-492c-aa75-e5765cfdc905.jpg?v=1729012742","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/torture-in-the-national-security-imagination-9781517913281","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}