Drone Enlightenment: The Colonial Roots of Remote Warfare 081394953X, 9780813949536

Drone warfare raises far-reaching questions about responsibility, war, and sovereignty. Who can be held accountable for

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Drone Enlightenment: The Colonial Roots of Remote Warfare
081394953X, 9780813949536

This interdisciplinary volume explores the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technol

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Explores a variety of ways of thinking ethically about drone violence Explores how drone violence works in different cir

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One of the most significant and controversial developments in contemporary warfare is the use of unmanned aerial vehicle

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Unmanning studies the conditions that create unmanned platforms in the United States through a genealogy of experimental

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Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare Drone warfare is now a routine, if not pre

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Uses C.L.R. James’sThe Black Jacobins as a jumping-off point for a reconsideration of colonial and postcolonial concepts

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By systematically linking eighteenth-century European writing to the colonial history of India, The Stillbirth of Capita

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With Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008, many believed the United States had entered a new era: Obama came into

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In this intimate and innovative work, terror expert Joseba Zulaika examines drone warfare as manhunting carried out via

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