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Life in the Age of Drone Warfare
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Edited by:
Lisa Parks
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English
Published/Copyright:
2017
About this book
This interdisciplinary volume explores the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare, showing how drones generate ways of understanding the world, shape the ways lives are lived and ended on the ground, and operate within numerous mechanisms of militarized state power.
Author / Editor information
Lisa Parks is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author and coeditor of several books, most recently, Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures.
Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and the author and coeditor of several books, including Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above, also published by Duke University Press.
Caren Kaplan is Professor of American Studies at the University of California, Davis, and the author and coeditor of several books, including Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
"This truly interdisciplinary work will challenge conventional understandings of a quickly emerging academic area. Those seeking a purely empirical analysis of how drone technology has changed the landscape might be left seeking slightly more, but they will be exposed to a series of well-constructed, timely arguments throughout this volume. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty."
-- W. Miller Choice
"An extensive and thorough compendium."
-- Aurelio Cianciotta Neural
"A masterful document, as fraught and anxiety‑inducing as its topic is, the book is, as they say, required reading. . . . I am eager to read more from any one of the authors included in it."
-- Matthew Chambers New Americanist
"A comprehensive feminist and critical intervention. . . . A decisive feminist and anti-racist contribution to security and surveillance studies that provides a diverse range of interdisciplinary lenses."
-- Abigail Curlew Surveillance & Society
"The collection of essays in Life in the Age of Drone Warfare offers a nice corrective to the over-proliferation of studies and artistic practices using drones in contemporary media studies . . . Taken together, the pieces map a fairly comprehensive landscape of the discourse and lived realities around the drone war, in particular the militarization of consumption across the racialized divides of the Global North and the Global South."
-- Patrick Brodie Synoptique
"Life in the Age of Drone Warfare is an eclectic collection of fascinating articles. . . .Together, these voices show that while we don’t yet know everything we need to about military drones, we do know they are over-determined."
-- Chris Hables Gray Technology and Culture
"Both appealing and relevant to a large audience and offers an exemplary model for continued interdisciplinary research within the critical humanities. . . . The contributions to this book are exemplary of well-researched, critical, and interdisciplinary work in the humanities."
-- Hugo Ljungbäck International Journal of Communication
"This book is in an exciting and innovative collection that promotes a critical reading of drones and does much to break down the static and realist assumptions that frequently inform this issue."
-- Michelle Bentley Politics, Religion & Ideology
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PART I. JURIDICAL, GENEALOGICAL, AND GEOPOLITICAL IMAGINARIES
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PART II. PERCEPTION AND PERSPECTIVE
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PART III. BIOPOLITICS, AUTOMATION, AND ROBOTICS
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October 19, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9780822372813
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448
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33 illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9780822372813
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Professional and scholarly;
