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Hellfire from Paradise Ranch : on the front lines of drone warfare / Joseba Zulaika.
LIBRA UG1242.D7 Z85 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zulaika, Joseba, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drone aircraft--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Drone aircraft.
- Terrorism--Prevention.
- Terrorism.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 289 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Hellfire from Paradise Ranch deals with drone warfare as manhunting carried out via satellite from Creech AFB near Las Vegas. It examines the layers of fantasy on which counterterrorism and its self-sustaining logic are grounded, in addition to the trauma endured by drone operators when, due to their visual intimacy with their victims, that fantasy collapses. The book situates the resistance to drone killings in the same apocalyptic Nevada desert where nuclear testing, pacifist militancy, and Shoshone tradition overlap. The Epilogue, 'Obama's Troy,' dwells on the tragic error of a good president unable to resist the deceptions of the counterterror state"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue : Slaughterhouse-359
- The Real : Home of the Hunters
- Fantasy and the Art of Drone Assassination
- Drone Wars Returning from the Future
- Trauma : The Killer as Voyeur
- Resistance : A Harsh and Dreadful Love
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Zulaika, Joseba. Hellfire from Paradise Ranch.
- ISBN:
- 9780520329744
- 0520329740
- OCLC:
- 1110681352
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