A fascinating account of how the law determines or dismantles identity and personhood Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guant???namo 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. Examining such troubling cases, The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its ...
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A fascinating account of how the law determines or dismantles identity and personhood Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guant???namo 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. Examining such troubling cases, The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities, both natural and supernatural, including ghosts, dogs, slaves, terrorist suspects, and felons? Reading the language, allusions, and symbols of legal discourse, and bridging distinctions between the human and nonhuman, Colin Dayan looks at how the law disfigures individuals and animals, and how slavery, punishment, and torture create unforeseen effects in our daily lives. Moving seamlessly across genres and disciplines, Dayan considers legal practices and spiritual beliefs from medieval England, the North American colonies, and the Caribbean that have survived in our legal discourse, and she explores the civil deaths of felons and slaves through lawful repression. Tracing the legacy of slavery in the United States in the structures of the contemporary American prison system and in the administrative detention of ghostly supermax facilities, she also demonstrates how contemporary jurisprudence regarding cruel and unusual punishment prepared the way for abuses in Abu Ghraib and Guant???namo. Using conventional historical and legal sources to answer unconventional questions, The Law Is a White Dog illuminates stark truths about civil society's ability to marginalize, exclude, and dehumanize.
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New. 2011. Reprint. Paperback. The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities? Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 343 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2010027474 Type of material Book Personal name Dayan, Colin. Main title The law is a white dog: how legal rituals make and unmake persons / Colin Dayan. Published/Created Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011. Description xvii, 343 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780691070919 (cloth: alk. paper) 0691070911 (cloth: alk. paper) LC classification KF465. D39 2011 Contents Holy dogs, Hecuba's bark--Civil death--Punishing the residue--Taxonomies--A legal ethnography--Who gets to be wanton? --Skin of the dog. LC Subjects Persons (Law)--United States. Slavery--Law and legislation--United States. Torture--United States. Civil rights--United States. Law--United States--Social aspects. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-323) and index. Dewey class no. 346.7301/2 Geographic area code n-us---Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn645790693
