Disarming Intervention

Randy K. Lippert, co-editor of Policing Cities: Urban Securitization and Regulation in a Twenty-First Century World:
Disarming Intervention offers a timely, original account of non-lethality in the twentieth century. Anaïs has uncovered material long buried in the archives – in particular, non-lethality in relation to the Vietnam War and Kent State – and analyzes it brilliantly. Her book has global appeal.

Benjamin J. Muller, author of Security, Risk and the Biometric State: Governing Borders and Bodies:
Disarming Intervention traces the historically contingent relations that animate non-lethality, unpacking what kind of lives these weapons let people live. Anaïs astutely exposes the essential role that non-lethality plays in the biopolitical “management of life” and, by focusing on more prevalent methods such as riot control, she positions her work at the heart of current debates.