Syllabus/achievement requirements

Torture, Surveillance and Rights (RSOS2950/4950)

 

Literature (783p)

 

1 Torture, surveillance and morality (442p)

Farrell, Michelle (2013). “The ticking bomb scenario: origins, usages, and the contemporary discourse”, in The Prohibition of Torture in Exceptional Circumstances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (65p)

Luban, David (2005). “Liberalism, Torture, and the Ticking Bomb”, in Virginia Law Review, vol. 91, issue 6 (38p)

Lyon, David (2015). Surveillance after Snowden. Cambridge: Polity Press (183p) (available as a paperback)

Nissenbaum, Helen (2004), “Privacy as Contextual Integrity”, Washington Law Review (39p)

Simon, William H. (2014). “In defense of the Panopticon”, in Boston Review, Sept-October, (17p)

Skinner-Thompson, Scott (2017), Performative Privacy”, (67p)

Sussman, David (2005). “What`s wrong with torture?”, in Philosophy & Public Affairs 33, no. 1 (33p)

 

2 Torture and surveillance in the history of warfare and the social sciences (129p)

McCoy, Alfred (2006). Chapters 2, 3 and 4 from A Question of Torture. New York: Metropolitan Books, pp. 21-150 (129p) (available as a paperback)

 

3 Surveillance, “Lawfare” and Drones (116p)

Bergen, Peter/Rowland, Jennifer (2015), “Decade of the Drone: Analyzing CIA Drone Attacks, Casualties, and Policy”, in Bergen/Rothenberg (eds), Drone Wars, Cambridge University Press (20p)

Heller, Kevin Jon (2013). “One Hell of a Killing Machine: Signature Strikes and International Law”, in Journal of International Criminal Justice 11, (31p)

Rothenberg, Daniel (2015), “Drones and the Emergence of Data-Driven Warfare”, in Bergen/Rothenberg (eds), Drone Wars, Cambridge University Press (21p)

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora and Lohne, Kjersti (2014). “The Rise of the Humanitarian Drone: Giving Content to an Emerging Concept”, in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol 43(1), (20p),

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora (2015). “African Drone Stories”, in Behemoth: A Journal on Civilisation, Vol. 8, No. 2 (24p),

 

4 Torture, Surveillance and Popular Culture (96p)

Halvorsen, Vidar (2009). “Catastrophic Moral Horror“, in Technologies of Insecurity. London: Routledge,, page 238-256.  (18p)

Hasian Jr., Marouf (2013). “Zero Dark Thirty and the Critical Challenges Posed by Populist Postfeminism During the Global War on Terrorism”, in Journal of Communication Inquiry 37(4) (22p)

Marx, Gary (2016), “The New Surveillance in Visual Imagery ”(56p)

 

 

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