4 Dec 9:30-11:00
BOOK LAUNCH ROUNDTABLE
Jinee Lokaneeta (Drew University), The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence and Scientific Interrogations in India (Law, Meaning and Violence Series), University of Michigan Press, 2020.
The Truth Machines explores the workings of law, science, and policing in the everyday context to generate a theory of state power and legal violence, challenging the monolithic frameworks about this relationship. Based on cases and interviews with lawyers, police, and forensic psychologies in five Indian cities, Lokaneeta provides insights into a police institution that is founded and refounded in its everyday interactions between state and non-state actors. The postcolonial Indian police have often been accused of using torture in both routine and exceptional criminal cases, but they, and forensic psychologists, have claimed that lie detectors, brain scans, and narcoanalysis (the use of “truth serum,” Sodium Pentothal) represent a paradigm shift away from physical torture; most state high courts in India have upheld this rationale. Attention to truth machines reveals the texture of violence experienced by certain sections of the population, even under the rule of law, especially in terror related cases. Jinee Lokaneeta argues that the attempt to replace physical torture with truth machines in India fails because it relies on a confessional paradigm that is contiguous with torture. Theorizing a concept of Contingent State, this book demonstrates the disaggregated, and decentered nature of state power and legal violence, creating possible sites of critique and intervention.
Thank you for some other wonderful article. The place else could anybody get that type of info in such a perfect manner of writing? I’ve a presentation next week, and I am at the search for such info.
Excellent web site. A lot of helpful info here. I¦m sending it to some buddies ans additionally sharing in delicious. And of course, thanks to your sweat!
Tải ngay ứng dụng J88 cho điện thoại di động của bạn để trải nghiệm game tốt hơn và an toàn hơn, ứng dụng J88 hỗ trợ tất cả các sản phẩm: Bắn Cá, Nổ Hũ, Game Bài, Casino, Thể Thao, E-Sports, Đá Gà và Xổ Số.
I also conceive hence, perfectly indited post! .
Hello. Great job. I did not expect this. This is a fantastic story. Thanks!
I went over this website and I think you have a lot of great information, saved to favorites (:.
I do trust all the ideas you have introduced for your post. They are very convincing and will definitely work. Nonetheless, the posts are too brief for starters. May just you please prolong them a bit from next time? Thanks for the post.
Enjoyed reading this, very good stuff, thankyou.
F*ckin¦ awesome issues here. I am very satisfied to see your article. Thanks so much and i’m taking a look ahead to contact you. Will you please drop me a mail?
It’s best to take part in a contest for top-of-the-line blogs on the web. I will recommend this website!
I went over this website and I think you have a lot of excellent information, saved to favorites (:.
I am continually browsing online for articles that can facilitate me. Thx!