The Law Is a White Dog : How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons

Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state--all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examinin...
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Autor*in:

Dayan, Colin [verfasserIn]

Format:

E-Book

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press ; 2011

©2011.

Ausgabe:

Course Book.

Rechteinformationen:

Restricted Access

Schlagwörter:

Law, Social aspects, United States

Slavery, Law and legislation

LAW, Administrative Law &, Regulatory Practice

LAW, Jurisprudence

Slavery, Law and legislation, United States

Torture, United States

Persons (Law), United States

Civil rights, United States

Law, Social aspects

Civil rights -- United States

Persons (Law) -- United States

Law -- Social aspects -- United States

Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States

Torture -- United States

Civil rights.

LAW.

Law.

Persons (Law).

Slavery.

Torture.

Literary Studies.

Recht.

Semiotics, other.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory

Umfang:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Reproduktion:

2011.

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ISBN:

978-1-4008-3859-2

DOI / URN:

10.1515/9781400838592

Katalog-ID:

870733672

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