Book ID: CBB442083437

Life in the Age of Drone Warfare (2017)

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Parks, Lisa A. (Editor)
Kaplan, Caren (Editor)


Duke University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: viii + 440 pp., illustrations, bibliography
Language: English

This volume's contributors offer a new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare. They show how drones generate particular ways of visualizing the spaces and targets of war while acting as tools to exercise state power. Essays include discussions of the legal justifications of extrajudicial killings and how US drone strikes in the Horn of Africa impact life on the ground, as well as a personal narrative of a former drone operator. The contributors also explore drone warfare in relation to sovereignty, governance, and social difference; provide accounts of the relationships between drone technologies and modes of perception and mediation; and theorize drones' relation to biopolitics, robotics, automation, and art. Interdisciplinary and timely, Life in the Age of Drone Warfare extends the critical study of drones while expanding the public discussion of one of our era's most ubiquitous instruments of war. (Publisher)

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Essay Review Chris Hables Gray (October 2018) Drones, War, and Technological Seduction. Technology and Culture (pp. 954-962). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Blake Atwood
John E. Jackson
Katina Michael
Brittany Duncan
Tom Kane
Concepts
Drones (aircraft)
Technology and society
Military technology
Aircraft; airplanes
Technology and war; technology and the military
Technology and law
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Americas
Europe
European Union
Iran
Great Britain
Institutions
Ethereum
United States. Department of Defense
United States Air Force (USAF)
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