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Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing: On Drones, Counter-Insurgency, and Violence book cover

1st Edition

Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing On Drones, Counter-Insurgency, and Violence

By Kyle Grayson Copyright 2016
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge
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The deployment of remotely piloted air platforms (RPAs) - or drones - has become a defining feature of contemporary counter-insurgency operations. Scholarly analysis and public debate has primarily focused on two issues: the legality of targeted killing and whether the practice is effective at disrupting insurgency networks, and the intensive media and activist scrutiny of the policy processes... Read more

Chapter One: The Cultural Politics of the Targeted Killing Assemblage 



Chapter Two: Beyond the Exception: The Legal Problematisation of Targeted Killing



Chapter Three: The Politics of Targeted Killing



Chapter Four: Science, Capitalism, and the RPA



Chapter Five: The Aesthetic Subjects of Targeted Killing



Chapter Six: The Quotidian Geopolitics of Targeted Killing Strikes



Chapter Seven: Concluding Remarks on the Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing



Biography

Kyle Grayson is a senior lecturer in international politics at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests are in the areas of political violence, security, culture, identity, and critical social theory. He is the author of Chasing Dragons: Security, Identity, and Illicit Drugs in Canada (2008).

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