...Figure 1 Department of Correction, Hagatna Detention Facility, Guam, 2012. Photograph: Emily Mitchell-Eaton Figure 1. Department of Correction, Hagatna Detention Facility, Guam, 2012. Photograph: Emily Mitchell-Eaton ...

... have chosen three points of entry into this exploration, discussed in three sections: first, the debates around the future of the building Escuela de Mechanica de la Armada (ESMA) in Buenos Aires, which was used as a clandestine detention and extermination center during the dictatorship (1976–83...

... these refugees had tested positive for HIV, and Camp Bulkeley, where they were detained, was set up as what Michael Ratner calls “the world's first and only detention camp for refugees with HIV” ( 1998: 187 ). Subsequently, the women in that facility who were found to be HIV positive were subjected to...

...; sodomizing detainees with a chemical light and a broomstick; sexually assaulting male and raping female detainees—practices that were found in Abu Ghraib and other detention centers in Iraq, as detailed in the May 2004 Article 15–6 inquiry headed by Major General Antonio Taguba. What is called...

... previous publications concerning missing persons, trauma, and more recently, landscapes of detention—explores what a face is and how it relates to a certain political regime. From portraiture to biometric technology, the face is linked to the contemporary concept of the individual. As a consequence, the...

... cultural values, even the United Nations (as was the case when, in 2001, the UN expressed its disapproval of Australia's mandatory detention policy for refugees and asylum seekers). Third, and for the first time in several generations, federal politicians spoke about the nation as preeminently the site...

... elected President Salvador Allende, violently restructured the Chilean social body through massive detentions, tortures, and disappearances of political actors. With reason, emergent scholarship on General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship grappled with issues of political violence and its gendered...

... Chitra Ganesh since 2004 on the Index of the Disappeared, an experimental archive of post–9/11 detentions, deportations, renditions, and redactions; with choreographer Erin Kelly since 2006 on the video series Performed Places ; and with media archive collective Pad.ma since 2012 on the Afghan Films...

... identification” shares this penetrative logic, in which a target and its representation are rendered identical. Read this way, the extraterritoriality and states of legal exception involved in recent detention policies have antecedents in the history of both targeting and covert operations, just as American...

... protest against the detention of the suspects before the Lords’ ruling; and TV news and newspaper cover age of the law and its enforcement did not make much of an issue of discrimination against noncitizens. A great deal more media attention was given to the difficulty of the Blair government in...

... Act as well as the UK Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 and the UK Terrorism Act 2006 , for example, inhibit individuals’ rights and freedoms by allowing detention without trial. Furthermore, the treatment of terrorist suspects at Guantánamo Bay by the American authorities neither complies with...

... how the (colonizer's) self produces a trap of either hierarchy over or forced assimilation by the (colonized) other. 3. A recent example from the US case saw how, under the Bush administration, the public secrets of the state – the extensive invoking of executive privilege, the secret detention...

... enslaved by and enslaving with secrecy. And so, in January 2009, he announced the closure of Guantanamo Bay – for so long an impenetrable detention centre, its practices hidden to the world – as well as the CIA's “black sites,” authorized by a classified presidential directive six days after the September...

... particularly true for those involved in formulating a response to the American government's illegal detention of “enemy combatants” in Guantanamo Bay. Despite these circumstances, activists continued to deploy the mask as a means of communicating to the wider public the unequal power relations between the...

.... When a number of migrants lost their lives to excessive force in 2005, the deaths were never accounted for or properly investigated (52–53). In a similar vein, the Italian island of Lampedusa has become a symbol for migrant pushbacks and overcrowded detention centers, further illustrating the...

... logic of global policing entails containing the others of the global economy in control spaces, such as camps and detention centers, and making sure they do not threaten the smooth space of the postmodern capitalist system. However, it is essential that these camps are legally managed, and as a result...

... “securitization.” Far from a cold-war logic of “security,” “containment,” or “détente,” based on a logic of preparedness and the accumulation of “defenses,” the logic of the terror war identifies the enemy as a vast, illogical, and ubiquitous threat to be preempted, predicted, and intervened in with decisive...