The Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror: Living, Dying, Surviving [Hardcover]

The contributors explores the intellectual, cultural, and political logics of the US-led war on terror and its consequences on lived lives in a range of contexts. The book interrogates the ways in which biopolitical practices hinge on political imaginaries and materialities of violence and death.Introduction; E.Dauphinee & C.Masters PART I: BODIES, LIVES, DEATHS Crossroads of Death; R.L.Doty Missing Persons: Manhattan, September 2001; J.Edkins Body Counts: The Biopolitics of Death; C.Masters Part II: Cinematics, Culture, Aesthetics * Responsibility and Terror: Visual Culture and Violence in the Precarious Life; M.J.Lacy Persistence of Memory? The (New) Surrealism of American Security Policy; K.Grayson Securitizing the Unconscious: The Bush Doctrine of Preemption and Minority Repor; C.Weber The Biopolitics of Security: Oil, Empire and the Sports Utility Vehicle; D.Campbell PART III: REGULATION, SECURITIZATION, PREEMPTION Sovereign Contradictions: Maher Arar and the Indefinite Future; D.Mutimer Abject Spaces, Frontiers, Zones, Camps; E.F. Isin & K.Rygiel Biopolitics and the Tragic Subject of Human Rights; A.Orford Living, Dying, Surviving; E.Dauphinee

The Logics of Biopower gives an authoritative account of the 'War on Terror' as a place in which sovereign power meets biopolitics. It includes some outstanding contributions to Foucauldian analysis in International Relations and has the rare virtue of making the reader re-think their assumptions of how international politics works. This book provides insights into aspects of the 'War on Terror' all too easily forgotten or marginalised in mainstream work on international relations. - Kimberly Hutchings, Reader in International Relations, London School of Economics This book offers telling and disturbing insights into how the 'war on terror' works and upon whose bodies it takes effect. It reveals deserts, borders, camps, hotel laundries and cars as the new sites of conflict. Its richly theoretical analyslãœ