The Biopolitics of the War on Terror. Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical Societies.
Julian Reid
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Paperback. This book provides an utterly original analysis of the social and political origins of the war on terror in liberal regimes of disciplinary and biopolitical forms of power. Series Editor(s): Tormey, Simon; Simons, Jon. Series: Reappraising the Political. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 258.
Newly available in paperback, this book overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. It demonstrates why this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life, but a war over the political constitution of life in which the limitations of liberal accounts of humanity are a fundamental cause of the conflict. The question of the future of humanity is posed by this war, but only in the sense that its resolution depends on our abilities to move beyond the limits of dominant understandings of ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Condition
New
Series
Reappraising the Political
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719074066
SKU
V9780719074066
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About Julian Reid
Julian Reid is Lecturer in International Relations at King's College London -- .
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