The spectacle of the body in pain has long functioned heuristically in crime and justice. Within this phenomenon sits a counter-cultural tradition of re-enacting outrages in public view to rally against injustices. This article starts from the established claim that bodily suffering comprises a core matter of humanitarian campaigning. However, if ‘spectacular suffering’ has predominantly been discussed as a visual experience, this article examines its performative aspects. Transgressive performance is evident in demonstrations of forced-feeding, hunger strikes, self-immolation and lip-sewing carried out by prisoners or by their intermediaries with a view to publicizing their cause. During such exhibitions, the body in pain becomes a heurist...
This paper explores the significance of cultural variations in emotion for the meaning and impact of...
This thesis examines representations of evil through the rhetorical figure of the face and its disse...
This article firstly analyzes a practical exercise of re-staging iconic violent images through actor...
Images of the body in pain are the primary medium through which we come to know war, torture and oth...
My dissertation project studies the practice of force-feeding at Guantánamo Bay detention camp and h...
This article explores the current situation of torture in connection with the main artistic, cinema...
This research considers the performance of situated subjectivity where the state and the individual ...
This article asks which approaches are the most effective when making 'performances of pain' - perfo...
Since its publication in 1985, Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain has become a seminal text in the stu...
This article takes violence in the law seriously, scrutinizing three sites engaged in violent subjec...
This thesis considers the ways in which the dominated, marked and suffering body (the controlled bod...
Torture of persons living in poverty has traditionally been at the margins of human rights intervent...
In The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry analyzes the structure of torture as an unmaking of the world in ...
This article concerns the Clínicas do Testemunho, a pilot project carried out in Rio de Janeiro, whi...
This project uses the study of bodies to examine three cases which provide important insights into q...
This paper explores the significance of cultural variations in emotion for the meaning and impact of...
This thesis examines representations of evil through the rhetorical figure of the face and its disse...
This article firstly analyzes a practical exercise of re-staging iconic violent images through actor...
Images of the body in pain are the primary medium through which we come to know war, torture and oth...
My dissertation project studies the practice of force-feeding at Guantánamo Bay detention camp and h...
This article explores the current situation of torture in connection with the main artistic, cinema...
This research considers the performance of situated subjectivity where the state and the individual ...
This article asks which approaches are the most effective when making 'performances of pain' - perfo...
Since its publication in 1985, Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain has become a seminal text in the stu...
This article takes violence in the law seriously, scrutinizing three sites engaged in violent subjec...
This thesis considers the ways in which the dominated, marked and suffering body (the controlled bod...
Torture of persons living in poverty has traditionally been at the margins of human rights intervent...
In The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry analyzes the structure of torture as an unmaking of the world in ...
This article concerns the Clínicas do Testemunho, a pilot project carried out in Rio de Janeiro, whi...
This project uses the study of bodies to examine three cases which provide important insights into q...
This paper explores the significance of cultural variations in emotion for the meaning and impact of...
This thesis examines representations of evil through the rhetorical figure of the face and its disse...
This article firstly analyzes a practical exercise of re-staging iconic violent images through actor...