Essays about: "torture"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 71 essays containing the word torture.

  1. 21. Animated Memories : A case study of the animated documentary 'Saydnaya – Inside a Syrian Torture Prison' (2016) and its potential within social memory

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Melina Scheuermann; [2019]
    Keywords : Animated documentary; social memory; testimony; forensic aesthetics; haptic spectatorship; haptic materiality; indexicality; movement; montage; navigation;

    Abstract : Through its ability to create images of non-representable incidents animation expands the range and depth of what documentary can represent and how. This master thesis investigates the potential of animated documentary within social memory exemplified by the interactive animated documentary Saydnaya – Inside a Syrian Torture Prison (Forensic Architecture, 2016). READ MORE

  3. 22. The Agony of The Supermax Confinement: Indefinite Isolation in The Name of Security

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Malak Taleb; [2019]
    Keywords : supermax prisons; solitary confinement; human rights; torture; Foucault; Agamben; Goffman;

    Abstract : The main area of inquiry for this thesis is super-maximum security prisons or as commonly referred to “supermax prisons”. First, the thesis traces the shift from the use of physical punishment to the use of disciplinary measures in punitive institutions and the development of the modern prison until it reaches its latest form as embodied in the supermax model. READ MORE

  4. 23. Interception on the High Seas - An Alternative to Elude the Principle of Non-Refoulement?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Emelie Georg; [2019]
    Keywords : Non-refoulement; Extraterritorial migration management; International Refugee Law; Human Rights; ECHR; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Pre-border controls can be used to control the movement of migrants outside of the state’s territory and thereby avoid obligations the that is stated in international refugee law and human rights. Extraterritorial migration management are often settled through bilateral agreements between the state of origin and the prospect destination country. READ MORE

  5. 24. Do You Swear to Tell the Whole Truths? Tunisia and the Truth and Dignity Commission.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies

    Author : Elvire Michel; [2019]
    Keywords : Truth and Dignity Commission TDC ; transitional justice TJ ; truth commission TC ; parrhesia; right to the truth; reconciliation; transition; memory; healing; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Tunisia is where all hope and rebellion started. After the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in 2010, the Jasmine Revolution spread to other Arab countries leading to the famous Arab Spring. Tunisia is depicted as the model of democratic transition in the Arab region and in the West. READ MORE

  6. 25. Stories That Cut Across: The Case of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Calais, France

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Ismael Omer; [2018]
    Keywords : Social torture; Transit Migration; Immigration; Refugees; Asylum Seekers; Calais; France; UK; EU;

    Abstract : In this thesis, I sought to accomplish two things. First, the thesis is written in a reflexive and even an auto-ethnographic manner. READ MORE