| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 347 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in law and society |
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Cambridge studies in law and society.
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| Contents |
Necropolitical Law -- Necropolitical Law's Planetary Jurisdiction -- Necropolitical Law remakes justice -- The killing of al-Baghdadi -- Necropolitical Law, Necropolitical culture : eye in the sky -- The mother of the of all bombs -- Necropolitical law and endless war |
| Summary |
"Extrajudicial, extraterritorial killings of War on Terror adversaries by the U.S. state have become the new normal. Alongside targeted individuals, unnamed and uncounted others are maimed and killed. Despite the absence of law's conventional sites, processes, and actors, the U.S. state celebrates these killings as the realization of "justice." Meanwhile, images, narrative, and affect do the work of law, authorizing and legitimizing the discounting of some lives so that others - implicitly, American nationals - may live. How then, as we live through this unending, globalized war, are we to make sense of law in relation to the valuing of life? Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to law to excavate the workings of necropolitical law, and interrogating the U.S. state's justifications for the project of counterterror, this book's temporal arc, the long War on Terror, illuminates the profound continuities and many guises for racialized, imperial violence informing the contemporary discounting of life"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 04, 2022) |
| Subject |
Law -- Social aspects -- United States
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LAW / General.
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Diplomatic relations
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Diplomatic relations -- Law and legislation
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Law -- Social aspects
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Foreign relations -- Law and legislation.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140109
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003003697
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| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022030680 |
| ISBN |
9781009075848 |
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1009075845 |
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