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Torture, terrorism and colonial sovereignty

Torture, terrorism and colonial sovereignty
Torture, terrorism and colonial sovereignty
With reference to Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended and Discipline and Punish, this essay argues that the practice of torture and indefinite detention in British-occupied Kenya, French-occupied Algeria and apartheid South Africa articulates a fundamental relationship between racism, biopolitics and modern forms of sovereignty. By reading Foucault against the writing of Frantz Fanon, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Achille Mbembe, the essay proceeds to consider how the exercise of torture and indefinite detention in the colonial context illuminates the ways in which sovereign power is geopolitically differentiated.
foucault, biopolitics, race, war on terror
0230574335
183-195
Palgrave Macmillan
Morton, Stephen
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Morton, Stephen
Bygrave, Stephen
Morton, Stephen
3200c49e-fcfa-4088-9168-1d6998266ec1
Morton, Stephen
Bygrave, Stephen

Morton, Stephen (2008) Torture, terrorism and colonial sovereignty. In, Morton, Stephen and Bygrave, Stephen (eds.) Foucault in an Age of Terror: Essays on Biopolitics and the Defence of Society. Basingstoke, GB. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 183-195.

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With reference to Foucault’s Society Must Be Defended and Discipline and Punish, this essay argues that the practice of torture and indefinite detention in British-occupied Kenya, French-occupied Algeria and apartheid South Africa articulates a fundamental relationship between racism, biopolitics and modern forms of sovereignty. By reading Foucault against the writing of Frantz Fanon, Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Achille Mbembe, the essay proceeds to consider how the exercise of torture and indefinite detention in the colonial context illuminates the ways in which sovereign power is geopolitically differentiated.

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Published date: 29 May 2008
Keywords: foucault, biopolitics, race, war on terror

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Local EPrints ID: 66086
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/66086
ISBN: 0230574335
PURE UUID: 34151571-56d3-464d-bc88-1b4949165eea
ORCID for Stephen Morton: ORCID iD orcid.org/0009-0009-5294-5640

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Date deposited: 28 Apr 2009
Last modified: 27 Jul 2024 01:39

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Author: Stephen Morton ORCID iD
Editor: Stephen Morton
Editor: Stephen Bygrave

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