Slum Acts. Veena Das

      1  Cover

      2  Series Page

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright

      5  Acknowledgments

      6  1: Introduction Slum Actions and Definitions The Next Chapters Notes

      7  2: The Catastrophic Event: Enduring Inordinate Knowledge The Event Two Ways of Deciphering a Terror Trial The Bombay Bomb Blasts The Confession The Bail Petition Begunah Qaidi: The Innocent Prisoner Bringing Social Theory into the Scene of the Inhuman Yet Another Register of Knowing Notes

      8  3: The Dispersed Body of the Police and Fictions of the Law Ordinary Violence and Legal Fictions The Policing Apparatus The Dispersed Body of the Police Navigating Everyday Dangers Veeran, the Irrepressible We Want Just a Little Help A Time for Pause Notes

      9  4: Detecting the Human: Under Which Skies Do We Theorize? Extreme Violence Shifting the Question A Form of Life The First Scene The Second Scene The Third Scene Notes

      10  5: Conclusion: In Praise of the Minor Clean Torture or Torture Without Visible Wounds No Warrant Torture Notes

      11  References

      12  Index

      13  End User License Agreement

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      2  Table of Contents

      3  Series Page

      4  Title Page

      5  Copyright

      6  Acknowledgments

      7  Begin Reading

      8  References

      9  Index

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