Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing - 9780367596309

Taylor & Francis

Cultural Politics of Targeted KillingOn Drones, Counter-Insurgency, and Violence\nAuthor(s): Kyle Grayson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367596309, 978-0367596309\nSynopsis\nThe deployment of remotely piloted air platforms (RPAs) - or drones - has become a defining feature of contemporary counter-insurgency operations. Scholarly analysis and public debate has primarily focused on two issues: the legality of targeted killing and whether the practice is effective at disrupting insurgency networks, and the intensive media and activist scrutiny of the policy processes through which targeted killing decisions have been made. While contributing to these ongoing discussions, this book aims to determine how targeted killing has become possible in contemporary counter-insurgency operations undertaken by liberal regimes.\n\nEach chapter is oriented around a problematisation that has shaped the cultural politics of the t.