Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror
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Extrajudicial, extraterritorial killings of War on Terror adversaries by the US 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 US 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1009074652
ISBN13:9781009074650
Release Date:November 2022
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:300 Pages
Weight:1.09 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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