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Transnational Torture : Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : do the ghosts of Leviathan linger on? Law, violence, and torture in liberal democracies
- Law's struggle with violence : ambivalence in the "routine" : jurisprudence of interrogations in the United States
- "Being helplessly civilized leaves us at the mercy of the beast" : post-9/11 discourses on torture in the United States
- Torture in the TV show 24 : circulation of meanings
- Jurisprudence on torture and interrogations in India
- Contemporary states of exception : extraordinary laws and interrogation in India
- Conclusion : unraveling the exception : torture in liberal democracies.