War Power, Police Power

Mark Neocleous

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2014

War Power, Police Power

Mark Neocleous

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748692385

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About this book

From waste to drones and no-fly zones

Why is liberalism so obsessed with waste?
Is there a drone above you now?
Are you living in a no-fly zone?
What is the role of masculinity in the ‘war on terror’?
And why do so many liberals say they love peace while finding new ways to justify slaughter in the name of security?

In this, the first book to deal with the concepts of war power and police power together, Mark Neocleous deals with these questions and many more by using critical theory to radically rethink war power.

Neocleous generates a provocative set of claims about state power and capital accumulation, the role of violence in the making of liberal order, the police wars at the heart of this violence, and the ways in which these processes come to be called ‘peace’. And he takes the reader down some unexpected paths: the ‘war on waste’, debates about effeminacy, the proliferation of resilience and trauma-talk, drones as the culmination of colonial bombing campaigns, and no-fly zones as the perfect accompaniment for drones.

The result is a compelling book that articulates a vision of war/police power beyond the military and the police.

Key Features

The first book to deal with the concepts of war power and police power together
Looks beyond the institutions of 'the military' and 'the police'
Thinks critically about how powers of war and powers of police coincide in the exercise of state violence and social ordering

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 WAR AS PEACE, PEACE AS PACIFICATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter 2 WAR ON WASTE; OR, INTERNATIONAL LAW AS PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Chapter 3 ‘O EFFEMINACY! EFFEMINACY!’: MARTIAL POWER, MASCULINE POWER, LIBERAL PEACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Chapter 4 THE POLICE OF CIVILISATION: WAR AS CIVILISING OFFENSIVE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Chapter 5 AIR POWER AS POLICE POWER I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Chapter 6 AIR POWER AS POLICE POWER II Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Chapter 7 UNDER THE SIGN OF SECURITY: TRAUMA, TERROR, RESILIENCE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Keywords: Politics

eBook

Published: February 12, 2014
ISBN: 9780748692385