State Violence and the Execution of Law State Violence and the Execution of Law
Law and the Postcolonial

State Violence and the Execution of Law

Biopolitcal Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones

    • $87.99
    • $87.99

Publisher Description

State Violence and the Execution of Law stages a provocative analysis of how the biopolitical divide between human and animal has played a fundamental role in enabling state violence, including torture, secret imprisonment and killing-at-a-distance via drones. Analyzing the complex ways in which the United States government deploys law in order to consolidate and further imperial relations of power, Pugliese tracks the networks that enable the diffusion and normalization of the state’s monopoly of violence both in the US and in an international context. He demonstrates how networks of state violence are embedded within key legal institutions, military apparatuses, civilian sites, corporations, carceral architectures, and advanced technologies. The author argues that the exercise of state violence, as unleashed by the war on terror, has enmeshed the subjects of the Global South within institutional and discursive structures that position them as non-human animals that can be tortured, killed and disappeared with impunity. Drawing on poststructuralist, critical race and whiteness, and critical legal theories, the book is transdisciplinary in its approach and value. It will be invaluable to university students and scholars in Critical Legal and Socio-Legal Studies, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, International Politics, and Postcolonial Studies.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2013
March 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
248
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor & Francis
SELLER
Taylor & Francis Group
SIZE
2
MB

More Books Like This

Torture and the Twilight of Empire Torture and the Twilight of Empire
2016
Liberal Democracies at War Liberal Democracies at War
2013
War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction War and Occupation in Iraqi Fiction
2015
War Culture and the Contest of Images War Culture and the Contest of Images
2012
Morality's Muddy Waters Morality's Muddy Waters
2011
Life, In the Hall of Smashed Mirrors: Biopolitics and Terror Today (Essay) Life, In the Hall of Smashed Mirrors: Biopolitics and Terror Today (Essay)
2008

More Books by Joseph Pugliese

Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human
2020
Mapping Deathscapes Mapping Deathscapes
2021
Biometrics Biometrics
2012

Other Books in This Series

Spatial Justice After Apartheid Spatial Justice After Apartheid
2022
Puerto Rico and the Origins of U.S. Global Empire Puerto Rico and the Origins of U.S. Global Empire
2015
The Pirate Myth The Pirate Myth
2015