Drone Enlightenment (eBook)

The Colonial Roots of Remote Warfare

Peter DeGabriele (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
174 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-4955-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Drone warfare raises far-reaching questions about responsibility, war, and sovereignty. Who can be held accountable for drone strikes? Do drones conduct wars of national territories and sovereign boundaries? What does the occupation of a land or people look like if there are no boots on the ground? Focusing specifically on the United States' use of killer drones during the War on Terror, Drone Enlightenment argues that this kind of warfare has its intellectual, ideological, and practical roots in the way the Enlightenment imagined moral agency, occupation, race, and sovereignty. As a consequence of seeing drone warfare as a creature of the Enlightenment, and through innovative readings of Hobbes, Locke, Grotius, Pufendorf, Barbeyrac, and Swift, the book also reevaluates the Enlightenment itself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.5.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 5 b&w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Achille Mbembe • Actor Network Theory • aerial occupation • asymmetry • Bruno Latour • Colonialism • Drone warfare • Enlightenment philosophy • Eyal Weizman • flying island of • Gulliver's Travels • Hugo Grotius • Jean Barbeyrac • John Locke • Laputa • law of the air • moral agency • neo-imperialism • Occupation • permanent war • Piracy • Race • race and colonialism • remote occupation • Samuel Pufendorf • signature strikes • Sovereignty • territorial occupation • Texts from Drone • Thomas Hobbes • vertical sovereignty
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-4955-6 / 0813949556
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-4955-0 / 9780813949550