Global Powers of Horror: Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces: Critical Issues in Global Politics
Autor Francois Debrixen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iul 2016
This concise and accessible new text offers original and insightful analysis into the concept of biopolitics. It surveys how biopolitical analysis is applicable to global life, global politics, and global security and the conceptual, practical, and ethical limits of various biopolitical arguments are also exposed. By exposing theories and their limits (readers are invited not so much to accept the presented theoretical narratives at face value, but rather to question biopolitical tenets and principles of thought and practice at the very same time that they are able to appreciate their theoretical richness, complexity, and diversity.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0415741424
Pagini: 230
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Routledge
Seria Critical Issues in Global Politics
Cuprins
Introduction: global powers of horror
1. Vulnerable bodies: rethinking camp-life and biopolitics
2. Time and the sovereign body: how security politics confronts the horror of finitude
3. Body parts of terror: rethinking security politics through the disseminated body
4. Severing heads: deconstruction hors texte, or what remains of the human
Epilogue: fusing remnants at the 9/11 Memorial Museum
Notă biografică
François Debrix is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the ASPECT Program at Virginia Tech, USA.