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Drone Enlightenment
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The Colonial Roots of Remote Warfare
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Artikel-Nr:
9780813949536
Veröffentl:
2023
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
10.05.2023
Seiten:
176
Autor:
Peter Degabriele
Gewicht:
417 g
Format:
235x157x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Peter DeGabriele is Associate Professor of English at Mississippi State University and the author of Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Literature and the Problem of the Political.
Drone warfare raises far-reaching questions about responsibility, war, and sovereignty. Who can be held accountable for drone strikes? How do wars conducted by drone disrupt ideas of national territories and sovereign boundaries? What does the occupation of a land or people look like if there are no boots on the ground? Focusing specifically on the United States' use of killer drones during the War on Terror, Drone Enlightenment argues that this kind of warfare has its intellectual, ideological, and practical roots in the way the Enlightenment imagined moral agency, occupation, race, and sovereignty. By seeing drone warfare as a creature of the Enlightenment, and through innovative readings of Hobbes, Locke, Grotius, Pufendorf, Barbeyrac, and Swift, the book also reevaluates the Enlightenment itself.