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Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror

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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.
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
370
ISBN 10:
1316513688
ISBN 13:
9781316513682
ISBN:
1316513688,9781316513682
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

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