Description: 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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EAN: 9781478006343
UPC: 9781478006343
ISBN: 9781478006343
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Book Title: Sacred Men: Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam
Item Length: 22.9 cm
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Sacred Men: Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Social Sciences, Government, History
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 431 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Keith L. Camacho
Subject Area: Regional History
Series: Global and Insurgent Legalities
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
