Opening book details…
Can I read This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) on EtoBox?
This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) by Kelly, Tobias is a politics available to read on EtoBox.
What is This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) about?
<p>We are accustomed to thinking of torture as the purposeful infliction of cruelty by public officials, and we assume that lawyers and clinicians are best placed to speak about its causes and effects. However, it has not always been so. The category of torture is a very specific way of thinking about violence, and our current understandings of the term are rooted in recent twentieth-century history. In <i>This Side of Silence</i>, social anthropologist Tobias Kelly argues that the tensions betw
Who reads This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kelly, Tobias
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812205237
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Science, Political Science, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
Other editions & translations
More by Kelly, Tobias
Browse all works by Kelly, Tobias
Similar books
- Witnessing Torture: Perspectives of Torture Survivors and Human Rights Workers (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing) — Alexandra S. Moore & Elizabeth Swanson Moore (2018)
- The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) — edited and with an introduction by William F. Schulz (2007)
- Exposing Torture : Centuries of Cruelty — Hal Marcovitz (2015)
- The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) — Operación Cóndor (South American countersubversion association); Pinochet Ugarte, Augusto; Roht-Arriaza, Naomi (2011)
- Joyful Human Rights (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) — William Paul Simmons; Semere Kesete; University of Pennsylvania. Press (2019)
- Torture, Psychoanalysis, and Human Rights — Monica Luci (2017)