Discounting life : necropolitical law, culture, and the long war on terror / Jothie Rajah, American Bar Foundation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rajah, Jothie, 1963- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in law and society.

Cambridge studies in law and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--Social aspects--United States.

Law.

United States--Foreign relations--Law and legislation.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 347 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Extrajudicial, extraterritorial killings of War on Terror adversaries by the US state have become the new normal. Alongside targeted individuals, unnamed and uncounted others are maimed and killed. Despite the absence of law's conventional sites, processes, and actors, the US state celebrates these killings as the realization of 'justice.' Meanwhile, images, narrative, and affect do the work of law; authorizing and legitimizing the discounting of some lives so that others - implicitly, American nationals - may live. How then, as we live through this unending, globalized war, are we to make sense of law in relation to the valuing of life? Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to law to excavate the workings of necropolitical law, and interrogating the US state's justifications for the project of counterterror, this book's temporal arc, the long War on Terror, illuminates the profound continuities and many guises for racialized, imperial violence informing the contemporary discounting of life.

Contents:

Necropolitical Law

Necropolitical Law's Planetary Jurisdiction

Necropolitical Law remakes justice

The killing of al-Baghdadi

Necropolitical Law, Necropolitical culture : eye in the sky

The mother of the of all bombs

Necropolitical law and endless war.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2022).

ISBN:

1-009-08396-1

1-009-08416-X

1-009-07584-5

OCLC:

1376934489