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Bauman, Violence, and Modernity

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Listen to this interview from National Public Radio with a nurse who risked discharge from her position at Guantanamo Bay for refusing to force-feed detainees http://www.npr.org/2014/11/19/365271597/guantanamo-nurse-could-be-discha.... Using Bauman’s essay, talk about the ways that routines and rationality created the dilemma facing this nurse. How does this illustrate Bauman’s points about violence and modernity?

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