Racial accountabilities: the legal legibility of racial state violence in the Special State’s Attorney Report on Police Torture in Chicago
| Autor: | Bonar Buffam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cultural Studies
Political capital 060101 anthropology Torture media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography General Social Sciences 06 humanities and the arts 16. Peace & justice Democracy Politics Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) State (polity) Anthropology Law Accountability Public sphere 0601 history and archaeology Sociology 050703 geography Biopower media_common |
| Zdroj: | Cultural Studies. 32:326-347 |
| ISSN: | 1466-4348 0950-2386 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09502386.2017.1354043 |
| Popis: | Public inquiries command significant political capital for liberal democratic states that premise their authority on being accountable to a generalized public sphere. By attending to the particular relations of visibility that are generated by these investigative state institutions, this article reveals the differentiated forms of legal and political accountability that structure the proceedings and case history of the 2006 Special State’s Attorney Report, which investigated the torture of African American suspects by Chicago police officers under the supervision of former Commander Jon Burge. More specifically, this article documents the racial relations of power that shape how state actors and institutions are made to answer for their conduct, explicating the ‘racial accountabilities’ that mediated this public inquiry as well as the practices of state violence it was tasked with investigating. On the one hand, these forms of accountability focused blame on the individualized actions of particula... |
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