Violent subjects and rhetorical cartography in the age of the terror wars / Heather Ashley Hayes.
2016
JZ6385
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Title
Violent subjects and rhetorical cartography in the age of the terror wars / Heather Ashley Hayes.
ISBN
9781137480996 (electronic book)
1137480998 (electronic book)
9781137480989
113748098X
1137480998 (electronic book)
9781137480989
113748098X
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 207 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
JZ6385
Dewey Decimal Classification
355.02
Summary
"This work examines violence in the age of the terror wars with an eye toward the technologies of governance that create, facilitate, and circulate that violence. In performing a rhetorical cartography that explores the rise of the US armed drone program as well as moments of resistive violence that occurred during the Arab Spring directed at generating a counter-hegemony by Muslim populations, the author argues that the problem of the global terror wars is best addressed by a rhetorical understanding of the ways that governments, as well as individual subjects, turn to violence as a response to, or product of, the post September 11th terror society. When political examinations of terrorism are facilitated through understandings of discourse, Hayes argues, clearer maps emerge of how violence functions to offer mechanisms by which governing bodies, and their subjects, evaluate the success or failure of the "War on Terror." This book will be of interest to public policymakers and informed general readers as well as students and scholars in the fields of rhetoric, political theory, critical geography, US foreign relations/policy, war and peace studies, and cultural studies"--Page [4] of cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-202) and index.
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Rhetoric, politics, and society series.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures/Photographs
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Introducing Rhetoricoviolence
1.The Materiality of Rhetoric and Violence
2.Rhetorical Cartography: Mapping the Terror Wars
3.Violent Subjects
4.The Buzzing of the Drones
5.Mapping the Disposal of Terrorist Bodies
6.Occupying Tahrir: Resistance, Violence, and Political Change
Conclusion: The Terror Wars Drone On...Or Don't They?
Bibliography
Notes.
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Introducing Rhetoricoviolence
1.The Materiality of Rhetoric and Violence
2.Rhetorical Cartography: Mapping the Terror Wars
3.Violent Subjects
4.The Buzzing of the Drones
5.Mapping the Disposal of Terrorist Bodies
6.Occupying Tahrir: Resistance, Violence, and Political Change
Conclusion: The Terror Wars Drone On...Or Don't They?
Bibliography
Notes.