Force-feeding and the legacy of torture in the ‘war on terror’

Barnes, Jamal

doi:10.1080/13642987.2019.1592158

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“…The US engaged in the well-publicized use of force-feeding in Guantanamo Bay in 2013 and-along with Australia-has also used force-feeding in immigration detention. 76 These practices are unjust and warrant condemnation. Writing about her experience with force-feeding, the suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst noted that 'infinitely worse than the pain was the sense of degradation'.…”

Section: The Moral Duties Surrounding Hunger Strikesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fragility as Strength: The Ethics and Politics of Hunger Strikes*

Aitchison

2021

J Political Philosophy

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I N Hunger: An Unnatural History, Sharman Apt Russell describes what not eating does to your body after a long enough time period: First you have double vision. Then your sight dims. You vomit green bile. Your speech is slurred. You can't hear very well. You have jaundice. You have scurvy from lack of Vitamin C. Your gums begin to bleed. You may be bleeding into your stomach and intestines. You may have thiamine deficiency, which weakens the muscles of the heart and causes lesions in the central and peripheral nervous system. As your nerve fibers degenerate, you feel a sharp pain down your arms. One day, you cannot move your legs. Niacin deficiency may be the reason for the sores in your mouth. You have what is called 'skin breakdown.' This is the process of starving to death. 1A great many people worldwide suffer this process as a result of the injustice of extreme poverty and food deprivation. It is a remarkable fact, however, that victims of injustice are sometimes known to invite such destructive physiological effects upon themselves as a means of resisting their mistreatment. Hunger strikes involve the refusal of food by an individual or collective as a method of political resistance, ranging from the symbolic renunciation of a few meals to indefinite self-starvation. The tactic is sometimes deployed by individuals and groups at liberty, though its paradigmatic form of use is by incarcerated agents with few 1

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Section: The Moral Duties Surrounding Hunger Strikesmentioning

confidence: 99%