Discounting Life

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-009-07465-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 516 g

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rajah, Jothie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Necropolitical law; 2. Necropolitical law's planetary jurisdiction: the USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T act; 3. Necropolitical law remakes justice; 4. The killing of al-Baghdadi; 5. Necropolitical law, necropolitical culture: Eye in the Sky; 6. The mother of all bombs; 7. Necropolitical law and endless war.

Über Autor(innen)

Rajah, Jothie
Committed to excavating rule-of-law violations, Jothie Rajah analyses law in context. She is Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Discounting Life shows how war-on-terror legality relies on ostensibly non-legal productions – images, narrative, and affect – to legitimize state violence. Authoritarian Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2012) shows how Singapore's narrative of national vulnerability combines with authoritarian politics to undermine rule-of-law ideals.