The Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Bodies, Lives, Deaths

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Crossroads of Death

      • Roxanne Lynn Doty

      Pages 3-24

   3. Missing Persons: Manhattan, September 2001

      • Jenny Edkins

      Pages 25-42

   4. Body Counts: The Biopolitics of Death

      • Cristina Masters

      Pages 43-57

3. Cinematics, Culture, Aesthetics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Responsibility and Terror: Visual Culture and Violence in the Precarious Life

      • Mark J. Lacy

      Pages 61-82

   3. Persistence of Memory? The (New) Surrealism of American Security Policy

      • Kyle Grayson

      Pages 83-107

   4. Securitizing the Unconscious: The Bush Doctrine of Preemption and Minority Report

      • Cynthia Weber

      Pages 109-127

   5. The Biopolitics of Security: Oil, Empire, and the Sports Utility Vehicle

      • David Campbell

      Pages 129-156

4. Regulation, Securitization, Preemption

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Sovereign Contradictions: Maher Arar and the Indefinite Future

      • David Mutimer

      Pages 159-179

   3. Abject Spaces: Frontiers, Zones, Camps

      • Engin F. Isin, Kim Rygiel

      Pages 181-203

   4. Biopolitics and the Tragic Subject of Human Rights

      • Anne Orford

      Pages 205-228

   5. Living, Dying, Surviving II

      • Elizabeth Dauphinee

      Pages 229-243

5. Back Matter

   Pages 245-252

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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.

• human rights
• Policy
• terrorism
• violence
• war

"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 analysis of the everyday world of photographs and movies, and its descriptions of people and events, demonstrates energetic resistance to the 'us' and 'them,' dead or alive narratives of war that encourage complicity in all of us. And in naming the dead, living, and otherwise, it retrieves the humanity of war's victims. This volume introduces outstanding young critical thinkers and confirms the reputations of established scholars in a collection of seminal importance."

- Simon Philpott, Lecturer in International Politics, Newcastle University

CRISTINA MASTERS is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University.

ELIZABETH DAUPHINEE is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester, UK.

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