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.

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 discourse...

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Main Author: Lokaneeta, Jinee (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Torture > United States.
Torture > India.
LAW > Criminal Law > General.
LAW > Comparative.
Torture
India
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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