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...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...

... that sites and practices of detention have been key in producing the US body politic over the course of the twentieth century, including what is imagined to count as “domestic” and “foreign.” Indeed, as I explore, the penal archipelago linking the GBNB to other spaces of punishment is a crucial legal...

... 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 psychological...

... on their freedom and create the capacity for the transformation from a submissive subject to a resistant one. References Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association . 2008 . Administrative Detention in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: A Legal Analysis Report . November 2008 , updated July...

...—and with 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...

... 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 of sovereignty, rather than identity. There is not a rich tradition of this having been done...

... 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...

... of “cosmopolitan law” ( Held 2002 ; Hirsh 2003 ). On the other hand, however, as I have been arguing throughout this article, changes in law and policy do not necessarily require, entail, or lead to cosmopolitan political culture. It is notable that there was very little public protest against the detention...

... 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 military policy involves the long-term absorption...

... 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...

... surveillance required by Cold War détente geopolitics resulted in collapses of time and space into an ever-present here and now. The local thus became fully consumed in global circuits as General Douglas MacArthur's Pax Americana slogan “We defend everywhere” rang across the planet. The local at volumetric...

... detention of prisoners, resistance to releasing records, the manipulation of media coverage – were accompanied by attempts to wiretap freely and reduce confidentiality for lawyers, to monitor email and financial transactions, to ask that employers and service providers from librarians to gas meter readers...

... 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 international law, nor with liberal democratic ideas of liberty and justice...

... areas” as further evidence that suspension of legal norms in urban areas was part of a comprehensive program geared at the containment of dissent. He goes on to examine the McCarran Act of 1950, which, in the midst of Cold War paranoia, established detention camps across the United States, a significant...

..., and they are classed as contractors (Cooke 2019 ). NZ Equity was eager to sign on, and a tense détente seems to have settled over the New Zealand film industry. This settlement hews closely to the logic of brands. Such logic allows for collective bargaining, which keeps the spigot of content flowing, but never allows...

... to articulate a coherent and cohesive response to the war on terror became increasingly circumscribed. This was 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...

... of Lampedusa has become a symbol for migrant pushbacks and overcrowded detention centers, further illustrating the escalation of unaccountable death (and living death) imposed at Europe’s fringes. Removing these deaths yet farther from the European mainland, the EU is increasingly outsourcing border...

.... He has attempted, in other words, to demonstrate that America is no longer 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...