TY - BOOK AU - Lokaneeta,Jinee ED - Project Muse. TI - Transnational torture: law, violence, and state power in the United States and India SN - 9780814765111 AV - K5410.T6 L65 2011 U1 - 345.025 23 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - Torture KW - India KW - United States KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-279) and index; 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814765111/ ER -