Legal Terrors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370524 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colin Dayan (0000-0002-6557-3462, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 42-80 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2005.92.1.42 |
| OpenAlex | W4232289930 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
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
Aesthetics · Colonialism · Human rights · Identity (music) · Political science · Sociology · Torture · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2018 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |