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Hellfire from Paradise Ranch: On the Front Lines of Drone Warfare
Joseba Zulaika
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Description for Hellfire from Paradise Ranch: On the Front Lines of Drone Warfare
Hardback.
In this intimate and innovative work, terror expert Joseba Zulaika examines drone warfare as manhunting carried out via satellite. Using Creech Air Force Base near Las Vegas as his center of study, he interviews drone operators as well as resisters to the war economy of the region to expose the layers of fantasy on which counterterrorism and its self-sustaining logic are grounded.
Hellfire from Paradise Ranch exposes the terror and warfare of drone killings that dominate our modern military. It unveils the trauma drone operators experience, in part due to their visual intimacy with their victims, and explores the resistance to drone killings in ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520329744
SKU
V9780520329744
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Ref
99-13
About Joseba Zulaika
Joseba Zulaika received his licentiate in philosophy from the University of Deusto, Spain, in 1975, his M.A. in social anthropology from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, in 1977 and his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Princeton in 1982. He has taught at the University of the Basque Country, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at the University of ... Read more
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