Reid The biopolitics of the war on terror

Life struggles, liberal modernity and the defence of logistical societies
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84779-337-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten

Reihe: Reappraising the Political

This book provides an utterly original analysis of the social and political origins of the war on terror in liberal regimes of disciplinary and biopolitical forms of power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reid, Julian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
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
Epilogue
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Reid Julian:
Julian Reid is Lecturer in International Relations at King's College LondonJulian Reid is Lecturer in International Relations at King's College London