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  • Terror Trials

    Life and Law in Delhi's Courts

    af Mayur R. Suresh ...
    Serier serie Thinking from Elsewhere
    Honorable Mention, Bernard S. Cohn Book PrizeAn ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, India, this book explores what modes of life are made possible in the everyday experience of the courtroom. Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technicalities become the modes through which courtrooms are made habitable. Where India’s terror trials have come to be understood by way of the expansion of ... Læs mere

    280,54 kr.

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  • Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora?

    af Essar Batool, Ifrah Butt, Samreena Mushtaq, Munaza Rashid & Natasha Rather ...
    Serier serie Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia
    On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian Army pushed their way into two villages in Kashmir, seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. They pulled the men out of their homes and subjected many to torture, and the women to rape. According to village accounts, as many as 31 women were raped.Twenty-one years later, in 2012, the rape and murder of a ... Læs mere

    26,22 kr.

  • Life and Words

    Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary

    af Veena Das ...
    In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology’s most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in 1947 and the ... Læs mere

    143,92 kr.

  • Omar Khadr, Oh Canada

    af Janice Williamson ...
    In 2002 a fifteen-year-old Canadian citizen was captured in Afghanistan for allegedly killing an American soldier. A badly wounded Omar Khadr was transferred to the US Bagram Air Force base and then Guantánamo Bay detention camp. He would remain there without trial until October 2010, when a military commission admitted evidence considered tainted by Canadian courts. A plea bargain and guilty plea ... Læs mere

    168,91 kr.

  • Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture

    A Philosophical Analysis

    af Fritz Allhoff ...
    A provocative philosophical investigation into the ethics of torture, The War on Terror, and making tough choices in exceptional circumstances.The general consensus among philosophers is that the use of torture is never justified. In Terrorism, Ticking Time-Bombs, and Torture, Fritz Allhoff demonstrates the weakness of the case against torture; while allowing that torture constitutes a moral wrong ... Læs mere

    104,49 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Revolt

    Snowden, Assange, Manning

    af Geoffroy de Lagasnerie ...
    Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning are key figures in the struggles playing out in our democracies over internet use, state secrets, and mass surveillance in the age of terror. When not decried as traitors, they are seen as whistle-blowers whose crucial revelations are meant to denounce a problem or correct an injustice. Yet, for Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, they are much more than ... Læs mere

    192,43 kr.

  • Trials of Truth

    India’s Landmark Criminal Cases

    af Pinky Anand ...
    A close look at criminal cases that shocked the country Drawing on her vast experience as a senior advocate and Additional Solicitor General at the Supreme Court, Pinky Anand examines criminal cases that have captured public interest. Breaking down each aspect of cases such as the Nirbhaya rape, the Nanavati murder, the Nithari killings and others, she gives us an inside look and lawyer's ... Læs mere

    35,29 kr.

  • At the Limits of Justice

    Women of Colour on Terror

    Redigeret af Sherene Razack, Suvendrini Perera ...
    The fear and violence that followed the events of September 11, 2001 touched lives all around the world, even in places that few would immediately associate with the global war on terror. In At the Limits of Justice, twenty-nine contributors from six countries explore the proximity of terror in their own lives and in places ranging from Canada and the United States to Jamaica, Palestine/Israel, ... Læs mere

    381,74 kr.

  • Maulana Karenga

    An Intellectual Portrait

    af Molefi Kete Asante ...
    In this book, the most prolific contemporary African American scholar and cultural theorist Molefi Kete Asante leads the reader on an informative journey through the mind of Maulana Karenga, one of the key cultural thinkers of our time. Not only is Karenga the creator of Kwanzaa, an extensive and widespread celebratory holiday based on his philosophy of Kawaida, he is an activist-scholar committed ... Læs mere

    170,11 kr.

  • Torture: The Pros and Cons of the Issue

    af ViewCaps ...
    Torture. That single word is enough to spark a passionate debate from either side. It’s hard to form a view one way or another when there is so much heated opinion for or against it. The ViewCaps Pros and Cons series takes a step back and looks at the issue objectively. It lays out only the facts and let’s you decide what opinion to take. ViewCaps is an imprint of BookCaps™ Study Guides. With ... Læs mere

    23,97 kr.

  • My Days in Prison

    af Iftikhar Gilani ...
    A Shocking story of trial, temerity and triumph. On 9 June 2002, at 4.30 a.m., Iftikhar Gilani, a journalist with Kashmir Times, was roused from sleep by loud knocks at the door. Groggily he opened it to find a posse of policemen, some armed, carrying an authorization to search his house. Within minutes, they were turning his small flat inside out. Little did Gilani realize then that by the end of ... Læs mere

    14,07 kr.

  • Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence

    Internal Conflict and Social Upheaval in India

    Redigeret af Angana P. Chatterji, Shashi Buluswar, Mallika Kaur ...
    Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence elucidates the centrality of political and foundational violence in the governance of conflicted democracies in the postcolony, calling attention to the urgent need for transformation. Spectacular and quotidian gendered and sexualized violence by states and collectives holds in place fraught and unjust histories and relations between elites and ... Læs mere

    52,85 kr.