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020 _a9780814765111
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020 _z9780814752791 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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_bL65 2011
082 0 0 _a345.025
_223
100 1 _aLokaneeta, Jinee.
245 1 0 _aTransnational torture
_h[electronic resource] :
_blaw, violence, and state power in the United States and India /
_cJinee Lokaneeta.
260 _aNew York :
_bNew York University Press,
_cc2011.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (x, 293 p. )
336 _atext
_btxt
337 _acomputer
_bc
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-279) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aTorture
_zIndia.
650 0 _aTorture
_zUnited States.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814765111/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2011 Political Science and Policy Studies
945 _aProject MUSE - UPCC 2011 Complete
999 _c41751
_d41751