The politics of pain and the uses of torture

Signs

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1047-1071

  Philipose, Liz ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34249864574     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513022     Document Type: Article

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