Camacho Keith L. Camacho

Sacred Men (eBook, PDF)

Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam

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Produktbeschreibung

Between 1944 and 1949 the United States Navy held a war crimes tribunal that tried Japanese nationals and members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro population who had worked for Japan's military government. In Sacred Men Keith L. Camacho traces the tribunal's legacy and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's notions of bare life and Chamorro concepts of retribution, Camacho demonstrates how the U.S. tribunal used and justified the imprisonment, torture, murder, and exiling of accused Japanese and Chamorro war criminals in order to institute a new American political order. This U.S. disciplinary logic in Guam, Camacho argues, continues to directly inform the ideology used to justify the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the torture and enhanced interrogation of enemy combatants, and the American carceral state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478005667
• Artikelnr.: 66282547

Autorenporträt

Keith L. Camacho

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
Part I. The State of Exception
1. War Bodies  29
2. War Crimes  60
Part II. The Bird and the Lizard
3. Native Assailants  89
4. Native Murderers  116
Part III. The Military Colony
5. Japanese Traitors  149
6. Japanese Militarists  181
Conclusion  215
Notes  225
Bibliography  269
Index  283