Torture : the role of ideology in the French-Algerian war

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Torture : the role of ideology in the French-Algerian war

Rita Maran

Praeger, 1989

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Bibliography: p. [199]-207

Includes index

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Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of France's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, this book looks in depth at the use of torture during the French-Algerian War (1954-1962) to reveal the failure of that liberal democratic state to uphold its obligations on rights. Rita Maran examines the Mission Civilisatrice ideology that justified the routine use of torture during that war and points out that human rights violations traceable to ideology occur irrespective of a state's political system or tradition of rights. The book contrasts the routinization of torture with the contemporaneous global development of norms to assure human rights and abolish torture. Maran concludes that reliance on a state's avowedly benevolent traditions of rights is not necessarily sufficient to protect individuals against state-directed violence, and that international law on human rights can provide significant protection. The book begins with a brief history of torture in France up to the French-Algerian War. Torture, international human rights law, and civilizing mission ideology are then described and defined. The major portion of the book is devoted to interpretation of the discourse of exemplary people from three sectors of French society--government, the military, and the intellectuals--to demonstrate that reliance on the civilizing mission ideology rationalized the use of torture. Torture is a source of valuable and stimulating ideas for political scientists, historians, lawyers, social psychologists, journalists, ethicists, scholars of colonialism and colonial discourse, and all concerned with human rights as part of international discourse.

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Introduction Torture International Human Rights Law Mission Civilisatrice: Ideology, Practice, Implications Methodology Narrative of Projected Chapters Discourse of the French Government Protection of the Individual by State France's System of Justice with respect to Algeria International Legal Norms Government Responses to Accounts of Torture Charles de Gaulle Discourse of the French Military Substantive Content Arrangement of Chapter Discourse of Soldiers Discourse of the Commanders Discourse of the Intellectuals "Intellectuals" in Context Universalism Intellectuals as a Political Factor Wartime Activities of Intellectuals Availability of Public Information on Torture Discourse of Intellectuals Discourse of Intellectuals Who Were Tortured Conclusions Summary and Conclusions The Civilizing Mission's Historic Underevaluation The Civilizing Mission in French Theory and Practice on Rights The Civilizing Mission Ideology and Torture Antinomies of the Ideology Rights in France Bibliography Index

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