This Side of Silence Jane Duncan States of Dispossession instead highlights

States of Dispossession instead highlights everyday experiences in an attempt to understand the persistent and intangible effects of dispossession

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and the fierce embodiment of fears in their homes

This Side of Silence Jane Duncan States of Dispossession instead highlightsWe are accustomed to thinking of torture as the purposeful infliction of cruelty by public officials, and we assume that lawyers and clinicians are best placed to speak about its causes and effects. However, it has not always been so. The category of torture is a very specific way of thinking about violence, and our current understandings of the term are rooted in recent twentieth century history. In This Side of Silence, social anthropologist Tobias