{"product_id":"terror-trials-life-and-law-in-delhis-courts-paperback","title":"Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMayur R. Suresh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, India, this book explores what modes of life are made possible in the everyday experience of the courtroom. Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technicalities become the modes through which courtrooms are made habitable. Where India's terror trials have come to be understood by way of the expansion of the security state and displays of Hindu nationalism, Suresh elaborates how they are experienced by defendants in a quite different way, through a minute engagement with legal technicalities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmidst the grinding terror trials--which are replete with stories of torture, illegal detention and fabricated charges--defendants school themselves in legal procedures, became adept petition writers, build friendships with police officials, cultivate cautious faith in the courts and express a deep sense of betrayal when this trust is belied. Though seemingly mundane, legal technicalities are fraught and highly contested, and acquire urgent ethical qualities in the life of a trial: the file becomes a space in which the world can be made or unmade, the petition a way of imagining a future, and investigative and courtroom procedures enable the unexpected formation of close relationships between police and terror-accused. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn attending to the ways in which legal technicalities are made to work in everyday interactions among lawyers, judges, accused terrorists, and police, Suresh shows how human expressiveness, creativity and vulnerability emerge through the law.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mayur Suresh's fascinating book is brilliant in its theoretical clarity, ethnographically dazzling, and beautifully written. Where law and the state often effaces those it targets, Suresh makes his subjects visible actors in their own trials.\"--\u003cb\u003eJinee Lokaneeta\u003c\/b\u003e, Drew University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Terror Trials is an illuminating and novel legal ethnography that engages terrorism not as spectacular, but rather as a quotidian bureaucratic legal terrain that Suresh unknots with keenness and patience.\"--\u003cb\u003eSameena Mulla\u003c\/b\u003e, Emory University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, India, this book explores what modes of life are made possible in the everyday experience of the courtroom. Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technicalities become the modes through which courtrooms are made habitable. Where India's terror trials have come to be understood by way of the expansion of the security state and displays of Hindu nationalism, Suresh elaborates how they are experienced by defendants in a quite different way, through a minute engagement with legal technicalities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmidst the grinding terror trials--which are replete with stories of torture, illegal detention and fabricated charges--defendants school themselves in legal procedures, became adept petition writers, build friendships with police officials, cultivate cautious faith in the courts and express a deep sense of betrayal when this trust is belied. Though seemingly mundane, legal technicalities are fraught and highly contested, and acquire urgent ethical qualities in the life of a trial: the file becomes a space in which the world can be made or unmade, the petition a way of imagining a future, and investigative and courtroom procedures enable the unexpected formation of close relationships between police and terror-accused. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn attending to the ways in which legal technicalities are made to work in everyday interactions among lawyers, judges, accused terrorists, and police, Suresh shows how human expressiveness, creativity and vulnerability emerge through the law. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMayur R. Suresh\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Law at SOAS, University of London.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMayur R. Suresh\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer in Law at SOAS, University of London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 17, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48032172638467,"sku":"9781531501778","price":53.22,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/T3ljSGdwdU53ZWpzSTlnYStxQ3JaQT09.webp?v=1777488663","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-ch\/products\/terror-trials-life-and-law-in-delhis-courts-paperback","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}