The Coloniality of Humanitarian Intervention by Patrick J. Ve... - 9781032626581

The Coloniality of Humanitarian InterventionAuthor(s): Patrick J. Vernon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032626581, 978-1032626581\nSynopsis\nThis book scrutinises the practice of humanitarian intervention to explore the extent to which racism and heteronormativity, rooted in colonial understandings of time and space, are enacted through the UKs responses, failed responses and non-responses to atrocity crimes. Taking humanitarian intervention as its central focus, the book uses queer international relations scholarship to draw the ongoing coloniality of the Western state into stark relief.\n\nBy studying House of Commons debates on the UKs response to mass atrocities in Libya, Syria, Iraq and Myanmar between 2011 and 2018, it highlights the ways in which dominant logics in these debates invoke subject-positions of extreme selfhood or otherness. These are identified as The Brutal Dictator, The ISIL Terrorist and.