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Political Performance and the War on Terror
The Shock and Awe of the Real: Political Performance and the War on Terror by Matthew Jones A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies University of Toronto © Copyright by Matt Jones 2020 The Shock and Awe of the Real: Political Performance and the War on Terror Matt Jones Doctor of Philosophy Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies University of Toronto 2020 Abstract This dissertation offers a transnational study of theatre and performance that responded to the recent conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and beyond. Looking at work by artists primarily from Arab and Middle Eastern diasporas working in the US, UK, Canada, and Europe, the study examines how modes of performance in live art, documentary theatre, and participatory performance respond to and comment on the power imbalances, racial formations, and political injustices of these conflicts. Many of these performances are characterized by a deliberate blurring of the distinctions between performance and reality. This has meant that playwrights crafted scripts from the real words of soldiers instead of writing plays; performance artists harmed their real bodies, replicating the violence of war; actors performed in public space; and media artists used new technology to connect audiences to real warzones. This embrace of the real contrasts with postmodern suspicion of hyper-reality—which characterized much political performance in the 1990s—and marks a shift in understandings of the relationship between performance and the real. These strategies allowed artists to contend with the way that war today is also a multimedia attack on the way that reality is constructed and perceived. -
Examining the Civil-Military Divide Through New (Institutional) Lenses: the Influence of the Supreme Court
University of Massachusetts Amherst ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst Doctoral Dissertations Dissertations and Theses November 2016 Examining the Civil-Military Divide Through New (Institutional) Lenses: The Influence of the Supreme Court Allen Linken University of Massachusetts Amherst Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2 Part of the American Politics Commons, Courts Commons, Military and Veterans Studies Commons, Military, War, and Peace Commons, Other Legal Studies Commons, Public Law and Legal Theory Commons, and the Supreme Court of the United States Commons Recommended Citation Linken, Allen, "Examining the Civil-Military Divide Through New (Institutional) Lenses: The Influence of the Supreme Court" (2016). Doctoral Dissertations. 759. https://doi.org/10.7275/8980257.0 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/759 This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Dissertations and Theses at ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contact [email protected]. EXAMINING THE CIVIL-MILITARY DIVIDE THROUGH NEW (INSTITUTIONAL) LENSES: THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUPREME COURT A Dissertation Presented by ALLEN E. LINKEN Submitted to the Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts Amherst in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY September 2016 Political Science © Copyright by Allen E. Linken 2016 All Rights Reserved EXAMINING THE CIVIL-MILITARY DIVIDE THROUGH NEW (INSTITUTIONAL) LENSES: THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUPREME COURT A Dissertation Presented by ALLEN E. LINKEN Approved as to style and content by: ________________________________ John Brigham, Chair ________________________________ Jane E. -
ON WATCH --- the Official Publication of the MLTF
ON WATCH --- the official publication of the MLTF Winter 2003, Vol. XVII, No. 2 (first published in 1977) MILITARY LAW TASK FORCE National Lawyers Guild 318 Ortega Street, San Francisco, CA 94122 Kathleen Gilberd -- co-chair, [email protected], 619-233-1701 Marti Hiken -- co-chair, [email protected], 415-566-3732 www.nlg.org/mltf MLTF Steering Committee Members Aaron Frishberg (New York, NY) Michael Gaffney (Washington, D.C.) David Gespass (Birmingham, AL) Kathy Gilberd (San Diego, CA) Luke Hiken (San Francisco, CA) Marti Hiken (San Francisco, CA) Carol Jahnkow (San Diego, CA) Kathy Johnson (Birmingham, AL) Harold Jordan (Philadelphia, PA) Jim Klimaski (Washington, D.C.) Jeff Lake (San Jose, CA) Dan Mayfield (San Jose, CA) Jeffrey Segal (Louisville, KY) Co-Chairs: Kathy Gilberd ([email protected]), 619-234-1883 (work) Marti Hiken, 415-566-3732 ([email protected]) JOIN THE MLTF Membership on the MLTF is open to all NLG members. The annual membership fee is $15.00. 1 Online subscription to ON WATCH is free for MLTF members; $15 for non-MLTF members. Please make checks payable to the MLTF NLG and send to 318 Ortega Street, San Francisco, CA 94122 Donations are gladly accepted. The MLTF is a national committee of the National Lawyers Guild. National Lawyers Guild 143 Madison Ave., 4th Floor New York, NY 10016 212-679-5100 212-679-2811 fax www.nlg.org MLTF Website http://www.nlg.org/mltf/ The Military Law Task Force wants to thank the Tides Foundation for making this issue of On Watch possible and for supporting our work. -
Alternative North Americas: What Canada and The
ALTERNATIVE NORTH AMERICAS What Canada and the United States Can Learn from Each Other David T. Jones ALTERNATIVE NORTH AMERICAS Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20004 Copyright © 2014 by David T. Jones All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of author’s rights. Published online. ISBN: 978-1-938027-36-9 DEDICATION Once more for Teresa The be and end of it all A Journey of Ten Thousand Years Begins with a Single Day (Forever Tandem) TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction .................................................................................................................1 Chapter 1 Borders—Open Borders and Closing Threats .......................................... 12 Chapter 2 Unsettled Boundaries—That Not Yet Settled Border ................................ 24 Chapter 3 Arctic Sovereignty—Arctic Antics ............................................................. 45 Chapter 4 Immigrants and Refugees .........................................................................54 Chapter 5 Crime and (Lack of) Punishment .............................................................. 78 Chapter 6 Human Rights and Wrongs .................................................................... 102 Chapter 7 Language and Discord .......................................................................... -
Discrimination in Response
9/11 Discrimination in Response TÜRKKAYA ATAÖV Ankara/Vienna, 2004 I.P.O. ONLINE PUBLICATIONS © Türkkaya Ataöv 2004 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the author, except in case of brief quotations in critical articles or reviews. ii THE ESSENCE “If we give up our essential rights for some security, we are in danger of losing them both.” Benjamin Franklin (1706–90), American statesman, scientist, thinker and publisher. * „This is a government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations and for the corporations.” Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–92), 19th President of the United States (1877–81). * “In the counsel of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes ...” Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), 34th President of the United States (1953–61). * „We must be prepared to stop rogue states and their terrorist clients before they are able to threaten or use weapons of mass destruction against the United States and our allies and friends.“ George W. Bush (1946– ), 43rd President of the United States (2000– ). * “A lie can go halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on.” Mark Twain (1835–1910), U.S. -
Gentlemen Under Fire: the U.S. Military and Conduct Unbecoming
Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality Volume 26 Issue 1 Article 1 June 2008 Gentlemen under Fire: The U.S. Military and Conduct Unbecoming Elizabeth L. Hillman Follow this and additional works at: https://lawandinequality.org/ Recommended Citation Elizabeth L. Hillman, Gentlemen under Fire: The U.S. Military and Conduct Unbecoming, 26(1) LAW & INEQ. 1 (2008). Available at: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/lawineq/vol26/iss1/1 Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality is published by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. Gentlemen Under Fire: The U.S. Military and "Conduct Unbecoming" Elizabeth L. Hillmant Introduction ..................................................................................1 I. Creating an Officer Class ..................................................10 A. "A Scandalous and Infamous" Manner ...................... 11 B. The "Military Art" and American Gentility .............. 12 C. Continental Army Prosecutions .................................15 II. Building a Profession .........................................................17 A. Colonel Winthrop's Definition ...................................18 B. "A Stable Fraternity" ................................................. 19 C. Old Army Prosecutions ..............................................25 III. Defending a Standing Army ..............................................27 A. "As a Court-Martial May Direct". ............................. 27 B. Democratization and its Discontents ........................ 33 C. Cold War Prosecutions ..............................................36 -
The Abu Ghraib Convictions: a Miscarriage of Justice
Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal Volume 32 Article 4 9-1-2013 The Abu Ghraib Convictions: A Miscarriage of Justice Robert Bejesky Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/bpilj Part of the Human Rights Law Commons, and the Military, War, and Peace Commons Recommended Citation Robert Bejesky, The Abu Ghraib Convictions: A Miscarriage of Justice, 32 Buff. Envtl. L.J. 103 (2013). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/bpilj/vol32/iss1/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE ABU GHRAIB CONVICTIONS: A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE ROBERT BEJESKYt I. INTRODUCTION ..................... ..... 104 II. IRAQI DETENTIONS ...............................107 A. Dragnet Detentions During the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq.........................107 B. Legal Authority to Detain .............. ..... 111 C. The Abuse at Abu Ghraib .................... 116 D. Chain of Command at Abu Ghraib ..... ........ 119 III. BASIS FOR CRIMINAL CULPABILITY ..... ..... 138 A. Chain of Command ....................... 138 B. Systemic Influences ....................... 140 C. Reduced Rights of Military Personnel and Obedience to Authority ................ ..... 143 D. Interrogator Directives ................ .... -
Aug14-Newsletter
COURAGE TO RESIST Supporting the troops who refuse to ght! www.couragetoresist.org 484 Lake Park Ave #41, Oakland CA 94610 510-488-3559 August 2014 National Newsletter facebook.com/couragetoresist “The Fog Machine of War” Chelsea Manning on the US Military and Media Freedom, as published by the New York Times By Chelsea Manning, former US Army secrecy make it impossible for Americans intelligence analyst. June 14, 2014 to grasp fully what is happening in the When I chose to disclose classifi ed wars we fi nance. information in 2010, I did so out of a love If you were following the news for my country and a sense of duty to during the March 2010 elections in Iraq, Supporter of al-Maliki with a poster depicting others. I’m now serving a sentence of 35 you might remember that the American inked fi ngers being hanged. Photo printed by the years in prison for these unauthorized press was fl ooded with stories declaring NYT’s alongside Chelsea Manning’s Op-Ed. disclosures. I understand that my actions the elections a success, complete with violated the law. upbeat anecdotes and photographs of crackdown against political dissidents by However, the concerns that Iraqi women proudly displaying their the Iraqi Ministry of Interior and federal motivated me have not been resolved. As ink-stained fi ngers. The subtext was police, on behalf of Prime Minister Nuri Iraq erupts in civil war and America again that United States military operations Kamal al-Maliki. Detainees were often contemplates intervention, that unfi nished had succeeded in creating a stable and tortured, or even killed. -
Nuclear Resister Issue #151
the Nuclear Resister “A Chronicle of Hope” No. 151 December 20, 2008 AVRUSTA NU! SWEDISH ARMS EXPORTS DISARMED Direct disarmament in the Plowshares tradition, using handtools and accepting per- sonal responsibility, continued in Sweden this fall with the debut of Avrusta! (Disarm!), a new campaign to stop Swedish weapons exports. Shortly after midnight on Thursday, October 16, anti-tank missile launchers and other armaments were damaged after activists broke into factories belonging to lead- ing European weapons manufacturers BAE Systems and Saab. In two simultaneous nonviolent actions, four people used hammers to damage arms bound for export to the United States, India and other countries. Two days later, their spokesperson was also arrested after entering one of the factories to continue the work. Photo courtesy of Jason MGuire At a die-in outside a space warfare conference in Omaha, the Grim Reaper Anna Andersson and Martin Smedjeback used hammers and bolt cutters to enter the contemplates his harvest. Saab-Bofors Dynamics production unit in Eskilstuna, near Stockholm. A video at their website shows them at work, hammering and scratching inside the barrels of 14 Carl Gustaf anti-tank grenade launchers, one of the most widespread weapons of the world, Space War Foes before they alerted police of their presence inside the supposedly high-security estab- lishment. Saab-Bofors later claimed damages of at least $141,000. Andersson and Smedjeback were charged with trespass, criminal damage and tres- pass at a place of national security, and were then released. Refuse Bail, Stay in Jail Sixty miles away, also before dawn, Catherine Laska and Pelle Strindlund had Eight people - all affiliated with midwest Catholic Worker communities - were arrested entered the BAE Systems plant at the Bofors industrial site in Karlskoga. -
Should US Military Evaders Be Extradited From
Should U.S. Military Evaders Be Extradited From Canada? Pro and Con Arguments By Dave Olson, August 2004 - 1! - © 2004-5 Dave Olson, “Should US Military Service Evaders be Extradited?” Yes. Military service evaders are in violation of U.S. laws, as well as personally breaching their contract and oath. Alternative programs exist for legitimate conscientious objectors to fulfill their duties in a responsible manner. Harboring cowardly deserters strains International relations and also drains the resources of the host country. No. AWOL personnel would be prosecuted, and possibly persecuted or executed, if repatriated to the United States. Military personnel, who oppose war for moral, ethical, or political reasons, should be recognized as political refuges and granted asylum if requested. No one should be forced to put their life at risk for an illegal war or be obliged to obey immoral orders. - 2! - © 2004-5 Dave Olson, “Should US Military Service Evaders be Extradited?” Yes Military service evaders are in violation of U.S. laws, as well as personally breaching their contract and oath. Alternative programs exist for legitimate conscientious objectors to fulfill their duties in a responsible manner. Harboring cowardly deserters strains International relations and also drains the resources of the host country. 1) Military personnel have a legal responsibility to fulfil their required military service period. Deserters must be extradited to ensure critical military discipline lest soldiers flee in time of war leaving their country vulnerable. Any country that harbors deserters against extradition requests is complicit with this law- breaking activity which infringes on a sovereign nation’s ability to make war. -
Cannon Fodder for Peace?
The Reporter The Center on Conscience & War for Conscience’ Sake Volume 59 Winter 2002 Number 4 Cannon Fodder for Peace? During the days of the anti-Vietnam War movement, I remember hearing of a tactic that some people By Rick Jankow used to try to bring home to the public how completely twisted our values had become. As I recall, a news release and fliers would be circulated inviting people to gather at a specific time and place to witness a live animal (usually a dog) being immolated with homemade napalm. Immediately, there would be vigorous debate and loud outcry against the idea of such cruelty. Then, at the appointed time and place, fliers would be handed out to the media and any outraged individuals who showed up, telling them that there would be no immolation of a dog, and that the purpose of the hoax was to demonstrate how hypocritical it was for the public to be so completely incensed by such an act while the same thing was being done everyday, in our name, to men, women and children in Southeast Asia. The hope was that this lesson would turn more people against the war. I’m reminded of this by the proposal to bring back the draft introduced on January 7 by Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) — only in this case, he’s essentially promising to place our sons and daughters, instead of a dog, in harm’s way in order to make a similar point. Another difference is that, even though his proposal doesn’t have a chance of passing right now, Rangel is serious about it and is not declaring it a hoax. -
Filming the End of the Holocaust War, Culture and Society
Filming the End of the Holocaust War, Culture and Society Series Editor: Stephen McVeigh, Associate Professor, Swansea University, UK Editorial Board: Paul Preston LSE, UK Joanna Bourke Birkbeck, University of London, UK Debra Kelly University of Westminster, UK Patricia Rae Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada James J. Weingartner Southern Illimois University, USA (Emeritus) Kurt Piehler Florida State University, USA Ian Scott University of Manchester, UK War, Culture and Society is a multi- and interdisciplinary series which encourages the parallel and complementary military, historical and sociocultural investigation of 20th- and 21st-century war and conflict. Published: The British Imperial Army in the Middle East, James Kitchen (2014) The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars, Gajendra Singh (2014) South Africa’s “Border War,” Gary Baines (2014) Forthcoming: Cultural Responses to Occupation in Japan, Adam Broinowski (2015) 9/11 and the American Western, Stephen McVeigh (2015) Jewish Volunteers, the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War, Gerben Zaagsma (2015) Military Law, the State, and Citizenship in the Modern Age, Gerard Oram (2015) The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery During the China and Pacific Wars, Caroline Norma (2015) The Lost Cause of the Confederacy and American Civil War Memory, David J. Anderson (2015) Filming the End of the Holocaust Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps John J. Michalczyk Bloomsbury Academic An Imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc LONDON • OXFORD • NEW YORK • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2014 Paperback edition fi rst published 2016 © John J.