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The biopolitics of the war on terror : life struggles, liberal modernity, and the defence of logistical societies / Julian Reid.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reid, Julian (Julian David McHardy), author.
- Series:
- Reappraising the political.
- Reappraising the political
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Social aspects.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- Biopolitics.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 144 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Reid provides a biopolitical analysis of the origins and development of the War on Terror. Aimed at students and lecturers in international relations, political and social theory and war and security studies, this book theorises the political potentials for human life beyond and after Liberalism.
- Contents:
- Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 War and liberal modernity: a biopolitical critique; 2 Logistical life: war, discipline, and the martial origins of liberal societies; 3 Nomadic life: war, sovereignty, and resistance to the biopolitical imperium; 4 Defiant life: the seductions of Terror amid the tyranny of the human; 5 Circulatory life: 9/11 as architectural catastrophe and the hypermodernity of Terror; 6 Biopolitical life: the 'war against war' of the multitude; References; Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781847796561
- 1847796567
- 9781781701676
- 1781701679
- 9781847793379
- 1847793371
- OCLC:
- 818847275
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