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The ecology of torture
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Mar 31, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Who is responsible for acts of torture? Individual perpetrators, certainly. But focusing on the guilt of individuals can lead us to miss the significance of context - social, political, cultural, the "ecology" of complex circumstances within which practices of torture occur.
Released:
Mar 31, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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