Torture, Intelligence And Sousveillance In The War On Terror Agenda-Building Struggles

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Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (and those of their successors in America and Britain) over their use of torture, first-hand or second-hand, to gain intelligence for the War on Terror. Exploring key agenda-building drivers that exposed the torture-intelligence nexus and presenting detailed case studies of key media events from the UK and USA, this insightful volume exposes dominant political discourses on the torture-for-intelligence policy. Whether in the form of unauthorized leaks, official investigations, investigative journalism, real-time reporting, or Non-Governmental Organisation activity, this timely study evaluates various modes of resistance to governments’ attempts at strategic political communication, with particular attention to ’sousveillance’: community-based recording from first-person perspectives. A rigorous exposition of the power-knowledge relationships constituting the torture-intelligence nexus, which re-evaluates agenda-building models in the digital age and assesses the strength of the public sphere across the Third, Fourth and Fifth Estates, Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in media and communication, sociology and social theory, politics and political communication, international relations, and journalism.

Author(s): Vian Bakir
Series: Classical And Contemporary Social Theory
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge | Taylor & Francis Group
Year: 2016 [2013]

Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 328
Tags: War On Terrorism, 2001-2009: Moral And Ethical Aspects; Torture: Government Policy: Great Britain; Torture: Government Policy: United States; Domestic Intelligence; Military Intelligence; Torture In Mass Media: Political Aspects; Communication In Politics; Terrorism: Prevention

Cover
Half Title
Series Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1 | Studying Torture, Intelligence and Media Manipulation in the War on Terror
2 | Strategic Political Communication, Intelligence and its Discontents
3 | The Rise of the Torture-Intelligence Nexus
4 | The Sousveillance Failure of John Walker Lindh
5 | The Surprise of Sousveillance at Abu Ghraib and the Struggle to Contain it
6 | The Persistence of Sousveillance: Baha Mousa and Torture in the British Military
7 | The Absence of Sousveillance
8 Conclusion
References
Index