Sacred men :
law, torture, and retribution in Guam /
Keith L. Camacho.

Description

Main Author

Camacho, Keith L.

Language(s)

English

Published

©2019
Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Subjects

War crime trials.
Atrocities.
HISTORY / Military / World War II.
World War, 1939-1945 > World War, 1939-1945 / Atrocities > World War, 1939-1945 / Atrocities / Guam.
War crime trials > War crime trials / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145161 / Guam > War crime trials / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145161 / Guam / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50000810 / History > War crime trials / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145161 / Guam / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50000810 / History / 20th century.
Guam.
Guam > Guam / History > Guam / History / Japanese occupation, 1941-1944.
History.

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.

Physical Description

xii, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

ISBN

147800634X
9781478006343
1478005033
9781478005032

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