The biopolitics of the war on terror : Life struggles, liberal modernity and the defence of logistical societies
Julian. Reid
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Manchester : : Manchester University Press, , 2006.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (161 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 War and liberal modernity: a biopolitical critique; 2 Logistical life: war, discipline, and the martial origins of liberal societies; 3 Nomadic life: war, sovereignty, and resistance to the biopolitical imperium; 4 Defiant life: the seductions of Terror amid the tyranny of the human; 5 Circulatory life: 9/11 as architectural catastrophe and the hypermodernity of Terror; 6 Biopolitical life: the 'war against war' of the multitude; References; Index.. - Newly available in paperback, this book overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. It demonstrates why this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life, but a war over the political constitution of life in which the limitations of liberal accounts of humanity are a fundamental cause of the conflict. The question of the future of humanity is posed by this war, but only in the sense that its resolution depends on our abilities to move beyond the limits of dominant understandings of the human and.
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| Emner | war terrorism
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| ISBN | 9780719074066
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