-About this book

Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare
Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained stuck in tired debates about practicality, efficacy, and ethics. Remote Warfare broadens the conversation, interrogating the cultural and political dimensions of distant warfare and examining how various stakeholders have responded to the reality of state-sponsored remote violence.
The essays here represent a panoply of viewpoints, revealing overlooked histories of remoteness, novel methodologies, and new intellectual challenges. From the story arc of Homeland to redefining the idea of a “warrior,” these thirteen pieces consider the new nature of surveillance, similarities between killing with drones and gaming, literature written by veterans, and much more. Timely and provocative, Remote Warfare makes significant and lasting contributions to our understanding of drones and the cultural forces that shape and sustain them.

-Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Rethinking Killing at a Distance  

 PART I:Visions

1- “An Entirely New Method of Conducting War at a Distance”:The First World War and the Air War of the Future ,Michael Zeitlin

2- Warrior Woundings, Warrior Culture: An Ethos for Post-9/11 American War Culture  ,David Buchanan

3- From Hermeneutics to Archives: Parasites and Predators in Homeland  ,Jens Borrebye Bjering and Andreas Immanuel Graae

4- Eye in the Sky: Persistent Surveillance Technology and the Age of Global War  ,Nike Nivar Ortiz

PART II:Intimacies

5- Of Games and Drones: Mediating Traumatic Affect in the Age of Remote Warfare  ,Michael Richardson

6- Over There? War Writing, Lethal Technology, and Democracy in America  ,Tim Jelfs

7- “Wanted Dead or Alive”: The Hunt for Osama bin Laden  ,Annika Brunck

8- Home, Away, Home: Remoteness and Intimacy in Contemporary Danish Veteran Literature  ,Ann-Katrine S. Nielsen

PART III:Reconfigurations

9- Necrospace, Media, and Remote War: Ethnographic Notes

from Lebanon and Pakistan, 2006–2008 ,Syed Irfan Ashraf and Kristin Shamas

10- Drones versus Drones: Ambient and Ambivalent Sounds against Remote Warfare ,Owen Coggins

11- Bombs and Black Humor: Aerial Warfare and the Absurd   Brittany Hirth

12- An Architecture against Dacoits: On Drones, Mosquitoes, and the Smart City ,Sajdeep Soomal

Index  

-caractéristiques

Date de parution :3 novembre 2020

Éditeur : University of Minnesota Press

Langue : Anglais

NB.de pages : 352 pages

ISBN-10 : 1517907489

ISBN-13 : 978-1517907488

Poids de l’article : 522 g

Dimensions : 13.97 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm