Transnational torture :
Lokaneeta, Jinee
Transnational torture : law, violence and state powers in the United States and India by Jinee Lokaneeta. - New Delhi : Orient Blackswan, 2012. - 291 p.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Do the Ghosts of Leviathan linger on? Law, Violence, and Torture in Liberal Democracies
Part 1. Law's struggle with Violence: Ambivalence in the "routine"Jurisprudence of Interrogations in the United States
Part 2. Being helplessly Civilized Leaves us at the Mercy of the Beast" : Post-9/11 Discourses on Torture in the United States
Part 3. Torture in the TV show 24 : circulation of meanings
Part 4. Jurisprudence on torture and interrogations in India
Part 5. Contemporary States of Exception : Extraordinary Laws and Interrogation in India
Part 6. Conclusion : Unraveling the Exception : Torture in Liberal Democracies
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
9788125045564
Legal and Political Torture--India.
345.025 / LOK/TRA
Transnational torture : law, violence and state powers in the United States and India by Jinee Lokaneeta. - New Delhi : Orient Blackswan, 2012. - 291 p.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Do the Ghosts of Leviathan linger on? Law, Violence, and Torture in Liberal Democracies
Part 1. Law's struggle with Violence: Ambivalence in the "routine"Jurisprudence of Interrogations in the United States
Part 2. Being helplessly Civilized Leaves us at the Mercy of the Beast" : Post-9/11 Discourses on Torture in the United States
Part 3. Torture in the TV show 24 : circulation of meanings
Part 4. Jurisprudence on torture and interrogations in India
Part 5. Contemporary States of Exception : Extraordinary Laws and Interrogation in India
Part 6. Conclusion : Unraveling the Exception : Torture in Liberal Democracies
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
9788125045564
Legal and Political Torture--India.
345.025 / LOK/TRA