1st Edition
Islamic State, Biopolitics and Media Governmentality The Dispositif of Terror
By Lewis Rarm
Copyright 2024
128 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
128 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
128 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book analyses the Islamic State’s (IS) media and governance strategy from a critical media and cultural studies perspective.
It deploys Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblage and Foucault’s theories of dispositif (dispositive, apparatus) and biopower to understand the ways in which IS governed its subjects during the tenure of its so-called ‘caliphate’. This theoretical... Read more
Introduction
1. Mapping the Dispositif: Power, Knowledge, and Subjectivity in the Islamic State
2. Governing the IS Mediascape
3. The Machinic Entourage: Terror and the Nonhuman
4. Mediating Governance: Conduct, Space, Exchange
5. Biopolitical Configurations in the Islamic State’s Administrative Apparatus
Coda: Regularisation and Resilience
Biography
Lewis Rarm is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington.
