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International Sociology

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First published online 2009-03

Review: Violence and Vulnerability: Marnia Lazreg,Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad. Princeton,NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press,2008,354 pp.,ISBN 069113135X,US$29.00

Volume 24, Issue 2

https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580908101072

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Abu Ghraib Algerian war of independence human rights torture war on terror

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Appadurai, Arjun (1998) `Dead Certainty: Ethnic Violence in the Era of Globalization', Development and Change 29: 905-25.

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Scarry, Elaine (1985) The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press

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