Hellfire from Paradise Ranch : on the front lines of drone warfare / Joseba Zulaika.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zulaika, Joseba, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drone aircraft--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Drone aircraft.

Terrorism--Prevention.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 the same apocalyptic Nevada desert where nuclear testing, pacifist militancy, and Shoshone tradition overlap. Stunning and absorbing, Zulaika offers a richly detailed account of how we continue to manufacture, deconstruct, and perpetuate terror.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue: Slaughterhouse-359

1. The Real: Home of the Hunters

2. Fantasy and the Art of Drone Assassination

3. Drone Wars Returning from the Future

4. Trauma: The Killer as Voyeur

5. Resistance: A Harsh and Dreadful Love

Epilogue: Obama’s Troy: Kill Me a Son

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780520974326

0520974328

OCLC:

1158140190