Time in the Shadows Confinement in Counterinsurgencies

Name: Time in the Shadows Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
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ISBN: 9780804778336

ISBN-10: 0804778337

ISBN-13: 9780804778336

Edition: 2012

Authors: Laleh Khalili

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Detention and confinement—of both combatants and large groups of civilians—have become fixtures of asymmetric wars over the course of the last century. Counterinsurgency theoreticians and practitioners explain this dizzying rise of detention camps, internment centers, and enclavisation by arguing that such actions "protect" populations. In this book, Laleh Khalili counters these arguments, telling the story of how this proliferation of concentration camps, strategic hamlets, "security walls," and offshore prisons has come to be.Time in the Shadowsinvestigates the two major liberal counterinsurgencies of our day: Israeli occupation of Palestine and the U.S. War on Terror. In rich detail, the…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 11/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 363
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Forebears: Imperial and Colonial Counterinsurgencies



Lessons and Borrowings: The United States and Israel



From Island Prisons to Guantï¿½namo Bay



Invisible Prisoners, Proxy-Run Prisons: From Khiyam to Rendition



Banal Procedures of Detention: Abu Ghraib and Its Ancestors



From Concentration Camps of the Boer War to Palestinian Enclaves



The Fracture of Good Order


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index