Discounting Life - Necropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Release date:	October 2022
Authors:	Jothie Rajah
Dimensions:	235 x 158 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	300
ISBN-13:	978-1-316-51368-2
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Criminal law Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Law > International law > Public international law > General Promotions
LSN:	1-316-51368-8
Barcode:	9781316513682

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