| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) |
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Global and insurgent legalities |
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Global and insurgent legalities.
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| Contents |
The state of exception -- War bodies -- War crimes -- The bird and the lizard -- Native assailants -- Native murderers -- The military colony -- Japanese traitors -- Japanese militarists |
| Summary |
"Between 1944 and 1949 the United States Navy held a war crimes tribunal that tried Japanese nationals and members of Guam's Indigenous Chamorro population who had worked for Japan's military government. In Sacred Men Keith L. Camacho traces the tribunal's legacy and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's notions of bare life and Chamorro concepts of retribution, Camacho demonstrates how the U.S. tribunal used and justified imprisonment, torture, murder, and exiling of accused Japanese and Chamorro war criminals in order to institute a new American political order. This U.S. disciplinary logic in Guam, Camacho contends, continues to directly inform the ideology used to justify the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the torture and enhanced interrogation of enemy combatants, and the American carceral state."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2019) |
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digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
War crime trials -- Guam -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Guam
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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Atrocities
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War crime trials
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| SUBJECT |
Guam -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1941-1944.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003260
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| Subject |
Guam
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019016764 |
| ISBN |
9781478005667 |
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1478005661 |
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