'Spaces of Disappearance' mentioned in Salon

July 5, 2019 Hilary Huckins-Weidner

Jordan H. Carver’s “observation is eerily appropriate if applied to Trump's concentrations camp system some 10 years later….”

The American people face a historical reckoning. Do we stand up against the crimes committed in our name?

Language encourages violence. Language legitimates violence and makes it worse. Language can be a form of violence in itself.

"This affecting and harrowing book examines the spatial manifestations of the War on Terror. From the uncertain sovereign spaces of Guantanamo Bay to the prefabricated metal cells that are used to house detainees in black sites, to the globally disbursed architecture of torture and disappearance, this book's focus on extraordinary rendition illuminates the uneven spatio-temporal distributions of power and violence." — Laleh Khalili, Author of Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies