Transnational Torture : : Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India /

Transnational Torture : : Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India / / Jinee Lokaneeta.

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Evidence of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and harsh interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay beg the question: has the “war on terror” forced liberal democracies to rethink their policies and laws against torture? Transnational Torture focuses on the legal and political discourses on tortur...

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Lokaneeta, Jinee,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Do the Ghosts of Leviathan Linger On?
  • 1. Law’s Struggle with Violence
  • 2. “Being Helplessly Civilized Leaves Us at the Mercy of the Beast”
  • 3. Torture in the TV Show 24
  • 4. Jurisprudence on Torture and Interrogations in India
  • 5. Contemporary States of Exception
  • 6. Conclusion: Unraveling the Exception
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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