Results for "Dayan, Colin"

Colin Dayan grew up destined to be a southern debutante, but instead became a leading academic with an acerbic and yet emotionally haunted take on her extravagant parents and exotic youth.... Read More about In the Belly of Her Ghost: A Memoir (Larb True Stories)

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... Read More about The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons

In this original and provocative book, Colin Dayan tackles head-on the inexhaustible world, at once tender and fierce, of dogs and humans. We follow the tracks of dogs in the bayous of Louisiana, the streets of Istanbul, and the humane societies of the United States, and in the memories and myths of... Read More about With Dogs at the Edge of Life

In this original and provocative book, Colin Dayan tackles head-on the inexhaustible world, at once tender and fierce, of dogs and humans. We follow the tracks of dogs in the bayous of Louisiana, the streets of Istanbul, and the humane societies of the United States, and in the memories and myths of... Read More about With Dogs at the Edge of Life

A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment.The revelations of prisoner abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and more rece... Read More about The Story of Cruel and Unusual (Boston Review Books)

A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment. The revelations of prisoner abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and more rec... Read More about The Story of Cruel and Unusual (Boston Review Books)