Torture and Torturous Violence

Transcending Definitions of Torture

Torture and Torturous Violence
Victoria Canning
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18 Jan 2023 UK
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There is growing recognition that torture is very narrowly defined in domestic and international laws, and that the endemic nature of psychological and/or sexualised violence against women is not adequately recognised as torture. Concretely defining torturous violence, this book offers scholars and practitioners a nuanced way to critically reflect on how torture is defined, and the implications that narrow definitions may have on survivors. Drawing on over a decade of research and interviews with psychologists and women seeking asylum, it sets out the implications of social silencing of torture in its narrowest sense, and torturous violence more broadly. It invites us to consider alternative ways to understand and address the impacts of such endemic physical, sexualised and psychological abuses.
Victoria Canning is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Bristol. She is currently Head of the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice, Associate Director in Border Criminologies at Oxford University, and trustee of Statewatch. Victoria has published and edited various books and articles, including Gendered Harm and Structural Violence in the British Asylum System (2017), From Social Harm to Zemiology (2021, with Steve Tombs) and Stealing Time: Migration, Temporalities and State Violence (2021, with Monish Bhatia). She is cocreator of the Right to Remain Asylum Navigation Board (with Lisa Matthews) and has acted as academic consultant on the BAFTA award-winning series Exodus: Our Journey to Europe.
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ISBN-13: 9781529218435
Published: 18 Jan 2023
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bristol University Press
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176

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