Description
The Truth Machines examines the emergence and use of these three scientific techniques to analyze two primary themes. First, the book questions whether existing theoretical frameworks for understanding state power and legal violence are adequate to explain constant innovations of the state. Second, it explores the workings of law, science, and policing in the everyday context to generate a theorization of state power and legal violence, challenging the dominant frameworks about this relationship.
Jinee Lokaneeta argues that the attempt to replace physical torture with a truth-seeking apparatus in India fails, because it relies on a confessional paradigm contiguous with torture. Her work also provides insights into a police institution that gets founded and re-founded in its everyday interactions between state and non-state actors. This book demonstrates the contingent, disaggregated, and decentered nature of state power and legal violence, creating possible sites of critique and intervention.
About the Author
Jinee Lokaneeta is an Associate Professor in Political Science and International Relations at Drew University.
Book Information
ISBN 9780472074396
Author Jinee Lokaneeta
Format Hardback
Page Count 264
Imprint The University of Michigan Press
Publisher The University of Michigan Press
Weight(grams) 480g
Dimensions(mm) 231mm * 157mm * 25mm