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oapen-20.500.12657-222862024-03-22T19:23:26Z Sacred Men Camacho, Keith L. Giorgio Agamben empire indigeneity militarism sovereignty thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies::JBSL1 Ethnic groups and multicultural studies::JBSL11 Indigenous peoples thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBA Relating to Indigenous peoples 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 the 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 argues, continues to directly inform the ideology used to justify the Guantánamo Bay detention center, the torture and enhanced interrogation of enemy combatants, and the American carceral state. 2020-03-27 11:23:48 2020-04-01T06:48:11Z 2020-04-01T06:48:11Z 2019 book 1007892 9781478005667; 9781478006343; 9781478005032 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22286 eng application/pdf n/a 9781478090236_OA.pdf https://www.dukeupress.edu/sacred-men Duke University Press 10.1215/9781478090236 10.1215/9781478090236 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b 9781478005667; 9781478006343; 9781478005032 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) 312 Durham 2020-03-27 11:14:48, Funder name: UCLA/ Funding project name: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem TOME open access
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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 the 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 argues, continues to directly inform the ideology used to justify the Guantánamo Bay detention center, the torture and enhanced interrogation of enemy combatants, and the American carceral state.
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