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Oct. 18th, 2005
Who's the "Human" in Human Rights?
Oct. 18th, 2005 11:43 pm"Redeeming the 'Human' Through Human Rights"
Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity, Stanford University Press, 2003, pp. 127-158.
Done with the Susan Slyomovics book! The book left me with some questions. Not sure if Talal Asad's article addresses any of my ramblings. But he's the adored scholar of quite a few of my classmates, and I've liked all his other articles that I've read in the past. So this should be good.
"...while U.S. military doctrine makes breaches of the Geneva Convention more likely, it makes actual cases of torture less likely because and to the extent that a direct encounter between individual soldiers and civilians is avoided. The use of excessive force against civilians through aerial bombardment is regarded differently from the use of violence perpetrated by particular officials against individual victims. It is not a matter of human rights abuse but of collateral damage." (pp. 127-128)
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Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity, Stanford University Press, 2003, pp. 127-158.
Done with the Susan Slyomovics book! The book left me with some questions. Not sure if Talal Asad's article addresses any of my ramblings. But he's the adored scholar of quite a few of my classmates, and I've liked all his other articles that I've read in the past. So this should be good.
"...while U.S. military doctrine makes breaches of the Geneva Convention more likely, it makes actual cases of torture less likely because and to the extent that a direct encounter between individual soldiers and civilians is avoided. The use of excessive force against civilians through aerial bombardment is regarded differently from the use of violence perpetrated by particular officials against individual victims. It is not a matter of human rights abuse but of collateral damage." (pp. 127-128)
( Reading notes... )
