Does the State Have the Right to Maim With Pellet Guns?
TheWire.in
The article explores how modern states utilize the deliberate infliction of permanent injury through non-lethal weapons as a technique of political control and governance. Drawing on historical context and Jasbir K. Puar’s theories, it argues that this "right to maim" creates debilitated populations that remain alive but subdued, serving as a covert form of sovereignty distinct from the traditional right to kill.
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