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Paik, A. Naomi

 
9781469626314: Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II
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ISBN 10 : 1469626314 ISBN 13 : 9781469626314
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2016

Synopsis

In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political communities that would guarantee fundamental legal protections, these detainees are effectively rightless, stripped of the right even to have rights. Rightless people thus expose an essential paradox: while the United States purports to champion inalienable rights at home and internationally, it has built its global power in part by creating a regime of imprisonment that places certain populations perceived as threats beyond rights. The United States' status as the guardian of rights coincides with, indeed depends on, its creation of rightlessness.

Yet rightless people are not silent. Drawing from an expansive testimonial archive of legal proceedings, truth commission records, poetry, and experimental video, Paik shows how rightless people use their imprisonment to protest U.S. state violence. She examines demands for redress by Japanese Americans interned during World War II, testimonies of HIV-positive Haitian refugees detained at Guantánamo in the early 1990s, and appeals by Guantánamo's enemy combatants from the War on Terror. In doing so, she reveals a powerful ongoing contest over the nature and meaning of the law, over civil liberties and global human rights, and over the power of the state in people's lives.

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À propos de l'auteur

A. Naomi Paik is associate professor of criminology, law, and justice and global Asian studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1469626314
ISBN 13 
9781469626314
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
328
Coordonnées du fabricant
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