Refusal to eat a century of prison hunger strikes
"The first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons, conflicts, and protest movements. The power of the hunger strike lies in its utter simplicity. The ability to choose to forego eating is universally accessible, even to those living under conditions of maximal constraint, as in...
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
[2022]
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Part One: Hunger striking in the crisis of imperial democracy
- Suffragists and the shaping of the hunger striking
- The medical ethics of forcible feeding and a brief history of four objects
- Irish republicans innovating hunger strikes for anti-colonial rebellion
- Gandhi's fasts, prisoner hunger strikes, and Indian independence
- Part Two: Hunger striking and democratic upheavals
- Solidarity and survival at Tule Lake stockade
- South African anti-apartheid hunger strikes
- Controversies of medical intervention in Northern Ireland
- Biomedical technologies, medical ethics, and the management of hunger strikes
- Australian refugee detention, trauma, and mental health crisis
- Captives in U.S. detention and their networks of resistance and solidarity
- Conclusion: Hunger-striking contingencies