Discounting life : necropolitical law, culture, and the long war on terror / Jothie Rajah, American Bar Foundation.
| Author/creator |
Rajah, Jothie, 1963- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023. |
| Copyright Notice | ©2023 |
| Description | xi, 347 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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| Series | Cambridge studies in law and society Cambridge studies in law and society. ^A402059 |
| Contents | Necropolitical law -- Necropolitical law's planetary jurisdiction : the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act -- Necropolitical law remakes justice -- The killing of al-Baghdadi -- Necropolitical law, necropolitical culture : eye in the sky -- The mother of all bombs -- Necropolitical law and endless war. |
| Abstract | "Extrajudicial, extraterritorial killings of War on Terror adversaries by the U.S. 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 U.S. 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 some lives so that others - implicitly, American nationals - may live. How then, as we live through this unending, globalized war, are we to make sense of law in relation to the valuing of life? Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to law to excavate the workings of necropolitical law, and interrogating the U.S. state's justifications for the project of counterterror, this book's temporal arc, the long War on Terror, illuminates the profound continuities and many guises for racialized, imperial violence informing the contemporary discounting of life"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-338) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Rajah, Jothie, 1963- Discounting life Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781009075848 |
| LCCN | 2022030679 |
| ISBN | 9781316513682 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1316513688 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781009074650 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1009074652 (paperback) |
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| ISBN | (PDF ebook) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | KF4651 .R35 2023 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |