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<span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva/Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva/Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">-----Original Message-----<br />
From: <a href="mailto:lk180@columbia.edu">lk180@columbia.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:lk180@columbia.edu" target="_blank">mailto:lk180@columbia.edu</a>]<br />
Sent: maandag 12 november 2007 16:40<br />
To: Dvora Yanow<br />
Subject: Question re: how policy/travels across time and place<br />
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I am working on a huge project in which I am tracing the geneology of US<br />
incarceration and detention practices in the "War on Terror" back across<br />
time and place. I am trying to see where some of the micropractices of<br />
detention have emerged and how they have changed over time. I know there<br />
are certain specific "nodes" which are considered crucial in transmission<br />
of such practices: US in Vietnam and before that in Philippines; Britain<br />
in the Boer War and then Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Norther Ireland; France<br />
in Vietnam and then Algeria; and then Israel in Lebanon and Palestine.<br />
What connects them all is that they are all ostensibly liberal democracies<br />
with extremelly illiberal counterinsurgency practices, especially when it<br />
come to detention etc</font></span><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><br />
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Laleh<br />
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Probably Abu Ghraib etc. has colonial analogies, but we should also look closer to home at the US 'civilian' prison system, along with the concept of an internal colony. <br />
See the article by <br />
</font><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;color:#000000;">Avery Gordon, </font><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><b>Abu Ghraib: imprisonment and the war on terror<br />
</b><i>Race and Class </i> </font><font face="AdvTimes" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:AdvTimes;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Vol. 48(1): 42–59, 2006</font><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><br />
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Les</font>
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