Michelle Farrell

Eleanor Drywood

Edel Hughes

"They offer you a feature on stockings and suspenders next to a call for stiffer penalties for sex offenders" : do we learn more about the media than about human rights from tabloid coverage of human rights stories? / David Mead -- It's not me, it's you : examining the print media's approach to "Europe" in Brexit Britain / Stephanie Reynolds -- British human rights scepticism through the lens of European newspapers / Lieve Gies -- Monstering Strasbourg over prisoner voting rights / C R G Murray -- Demonising immigrants : how a human rights narrative has contributed to negative portrayals of immigrants in the UK media / Eleanor Drywood and Harriet Gray -- Trial by media : the fair trial jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in the UK press / Yvonne McDermott Rees -- Human rights and public debate : the media as scapegoat? / Ekaterina Balabanova -- Careful what you wish for : press criticism of the legal protection of human rights / Jacob Rowbottom -- Arguing the case for human rights in Brexit Britain / Colm O'Cinnéide -- Instrumentalism in human rights and the media : locking out democratic scepticism? / Michael Gordon -- Magna Carta and the invention of "British Rights" / Michelle Farrell and Edel Hughes

Fear and Fetish

Human Rights in the Media

Can torture be justified in exceptional circumstances? In this timely work, Michelle Farrell asks how and why this question has become such a central debate. She argues that the ticking bomb scenario is a fiction which blinds us to the reality of torture and investigates what it is that that scenario fails to represent. Farrell aims to reframe how we think about torture, and critically reflects on the historical and contemporary approaches to its use in exceptional situations. She demonstrates how torture, from its use in Algeria to the 'War on Terror', has been misrepresented, and appraises the legalist, extra-legalist and absolutist assessments of exception to the torture prohibition. Employing Giorgio Agamben's theory of the state of exception as a foil, Farrell deconstructs these approaches and goes on to propose her own theory of exceptional torture.

Michelle Farrell

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