Representations (Berkeley, Calif.), 2005-11, Vol.92 (1), p.42-80
2005
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Legal Terrors
- Ist Teil von
- Representations (Berkeley, Calif.), 2005-11, Vol.92 (1), p.42-80
- Ort / Verlag
- University of California Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2005
- Quelle
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- ABSTRACT This essay examines the conditions under which categories of identity are legally reconstructed. It argues that legal practice and spiritual belief in colonial North America and certain parts of the Caribbean shed light on current rituals of dispossession and torture in the United States.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0734-6018eISSN: 1533-855XDOI: 10.1525/rep.2005.92.1.42Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_61694112
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Capital punishment, Caribbean, Criminals, Eighth Amendment, Fear, Identity, Judgment, Law, Memoranda, North America, Prisoner treatment, Prisoners, Prisons, Rituals, Slaves, Soul, Spirituality, Torture, United States of America