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
Morton, Stephen
3200c49e-fcfa-4088-9168-1d6998266ec1
29 May 2008
Morton, Stephen
3200c49e-fcfa-4088-9168-1d6998266ec1
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, .
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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
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foucault, biopolitics, race, war on terror
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/66086
ISBN: 0230574335
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Stephen Morton
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Stephen Bygrave
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