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- Title
BIOPOLÍTICA DE LA TORTURA: GUANTANAMIZAR IRAK.
- Authors
GUERRA, BENJAMÍN ORTEGA
- Abstract
This is a reflection or a small contribution from foulcaulnian notion: biopolitics. The item tries to explicate how was possible the torture in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo jails. The new concept, biopolitics of the torture, support it in an innovative interpretation from the international laws like Geneva Convention whit this new concept. However, this essay it's not a legal reflection. Firs of all, I tray to explain how the sovereign power -biopolitics- (the U. S. government) set ups in the bare anatomy of the prisoner to torture him and turns him in bare life. And how this sovereign power turns a biopolitics of the torture within structure exception, an emergency state.
- Subjects
GUANTANAMO (Cuba); CUBA; BIOPOLITICS (Sociobiology); TORTURE; ABU Ghraib Prison; JAILS; INTERNATIONAL law; SOVEREIGNTY
- Publication
OPERA - Observatorio de Políticas, Ejecución y Resultados de la Administración Pública, 2008, Issue 8, p7
- ISSN
1657-8651
- Publication type
Article