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Transnational torture : law, violence, and state power in the United States and India /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
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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.