Insights: Torture and the veil of singularity: A commentary on Veena Das’ ‘Where is Democracy in India? Asking Anthropological Theory to Open Its Doors’

Lotte Buch Segal

In her AT Commons blogpost, Veena Das (2019) argues that torture is a social phenomenon. Hence, the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator is not external to the social. Their relationship is a social tie as are the multiple reasons that caused them to end up in those respective subject positions. The implications hereofRead more