Torture in the National Security Imagination

"Opening up a new set of questions about the everyday work that torture does for U.S. society, Stephanie Athey describes the role of torture in the proliferation of a U.S. national security stance and imagination. She shows that torture must be seen as a colonial legacy with a corporate future, highlighting the centrality of torture to the American empire-including its role in colonial settlement, American Indian boarding schools, and police violence"--