Transnational torture : law, violence and state powers in the United States and India by Jinee Lokaneeta.
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TextLanguage: Publication details: New Delhi : Orient Blackswan, 2012.Description: 291 pISBN: - 9788125045564
- 345.025 LOK/TRA
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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