Presenting the Jumah al-Dossari
Center For Critical Studies
The Jumah al-Dossari Center for Critical Studies was founded as an integral part of the museum in the hopes of creating a generative environment for critical discourses on human rights, imprisonment, torture, and postnational political formations. Visitors to the museum are invited to read our publications, browse our library of critical texts, as well as attend one of our many public lecture series. We at the Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History feel that it is incredibly important to both memorialize the events that transpired at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp while it was in operation while also serving as a discursive platform for preventing the reemergence of similarly abusive institutions.
We publish a select number of articles from our collection for free online to ensure that the broader public has access to our materials. Please do explore and read our current selection of texts by clicking on any of the sections below:
Omar Khadr: Race, Empire, and Unexceptional Detention
by Harsha Walia
Through examining the case of Omar Khadr, the youngest prisoner the have been detained at Guantanamo, Harsha Walia looks to how the excesses of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp are representative of broader systems of colonialism, criminality and imprisonment.
Precarious Life; Indefinite Detention
by Judith Butler
In this essay, Judith Butler examines how international human rights have come to be shaped by the discourses of "civilization" and how any ethical frameworks for human rights must first always interrogate what we allow to be "human".
Guantanamo Bay: A State of Exception
by Martin Puchner
In a critical engagement with the legal and territorial history of Guantanamo, Martin Puchner asks how the codification of the "state of exception" into U.S. law problematizes the limits of sovereignty, justice and law.
The Black Flag: Guantanamo Bay and the State of Exception
by Derek Gregory
Reflecting on both the history of colonial spaces and the legal systems that inhabit them, Gregory looks to Guantanamo Bay as a contemporary example of many of the systems of domination and violence that have accompanied much of our pasts.
Center For Critical Studies
The Jumah al-Dossari Center for Critical Studies was founded as an integral part of the museum in the hopes of creating a generative environment for critical discourses on human rights, imprisonment, torture, and postnational political formations. Visitors to the museum are invited to read our publications, browse our library of critical texts, as well as attend one of our many public lecture series. We at the Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History feel that it is incredibly important to both memorialize the events that transpired at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp while it was in operation while also serving as a discursive platform for preventing the reemergence of similarly abusive institutions.
We publish a select number of articles from our collection for free online to ensure that the broader public has access to our materials. Please do explore and read our current selection of texts by clicking on any of the sections below:
Omar Khadr: Race, Empire, and Unexceptional Detentionby Harsha Walia
Through examining the case of Omar Khadr, the youngest prisoner the have been detained at Guantanamo, Harsha Walia looks to how the excesses of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp are representative of broader systems of colonialism, criminality and imprisonment.
Precarious Life; Indefinite Detentionby Judith Butler
In this essay, Judith Butler examines how international human rights have come to be shaped by the discourses of "civilization" and how any ethical frameworks for human rights must first always interrogate what we allow to be "human".
Guantanamo Bay: A State of Exceptionby Martin Puchner
In a critical engagement with the legal and territorial history of Guantanamo, Martin Puchner asks how the codification of the "state of exception" into U.S. law problematizes the limits of sovereignty, justice and law.
The Black Flag: Guantanamo Bay and the State of Exceptionby Derek Gregory
Reflecting on both the history of colonial spaces and the legal systems that inhabit them, Gregory looks to Guantanamo Bay as a contemporary example of many of the systems of domination and violence that have accompanied much of our pasts.
