TY  - BOOK
AU  - Camacho,Keith L.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Sacred Men: Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam 
T2  - Global and insurgent legalities
SN  - 9781478005667
AV  - KZ1186.G85 C363 2019
U1  - 341.6/90268 23
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Atrocities
KW  - Guam
KW  - War crime trials
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Japanese occupation, 1941-1944
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The state of exception -- War bodies -- War crimes -- The bird and the lizard -- Native assailants -- Native murderers -- The military colony -- Japanese traitors -- Japanese militarists; Open Access
N2  - "Between 1944 and 1949 the United States Navy held a war crimes tribunal that tried Japanese nationals and members of Guam's indigenous Chamorro population who had worked for Japan's military government. In Sacred Men Keith L. Camacho traces the tribunal's legacy and its role in shaping contemporary domestic and international laws regarding combatants, jurisdiction, and property. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's notions of bare life and Chamorro concepts of retribution, Camacho demonstrates how the U.S. tribunal used and justified imprisonment, torture, murder, and exiling of accused Japanese and Chamorro war criminals in order to institute a new American political order. This U.S. disciplinary logic in Guam, Camacho contends, continues to directly inform the ideology used to justify the Guantanamo Bay detention center, the torture and enhanced interrogation of enemy combatants, and the American carceral state." -- Provided by publisher
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/71933/
ER  -