The Marks of Civilisation: The Special Stigma of Torture. (11th December 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The Marks of Civilisation: The Special Stigma of Torture. (11th December 2021)
- Main Title:
- The Marks of Civilisation: The Special Stigma of Torture
- Authors:
- Farrell, Michelle
- Abstract:
- Abstract: The European Court of Human Rights attached a special stigma to torture in Ireland v United Kingdom, in its interpretation of the distinction between torture and other forms of ill-treatment. The concept is now central to the European Court's description of torture under article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. It is, I argue, significant that the Court reached for this particular phrase. I consider the special stigma as a parapraxis facilitating a reading of the Court's 'unconscious text'. I connect the power to stigmatise with torture to explore the special stigma's figurative, material and theological implications. Stigma, with its multi-layered meaning and its deep connections to torture, is useful in working out how Western powers generated their self-images as civilised whilst persisting with practices of torture. With the special stigma, the European Court rehabilitated the civilising standard and resurrected the historic association between torture and stigma.
- Is Part Of:
- Human rights law review. Volume 22:Number 1(2022)
- Journal:
- Human rights law review
- Issue:
- Volume 22:Number 1(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 22, Issue 1 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 22
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0022-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- Page End:
- Publication Date:
- 2021-12-11
- Subjects:
- torture -- special stigma -- article 3 -- civilisation -- political theology
Human rights -- Periodicals
341.48105 - Journal URLs:
- http://hrlr.oxfordjournals.org/ ↗
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1093/hrlr/ngab029 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1461-7781
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