Remote Warfare: New Cultures of Violence

by Adelman, Rebecca A. Kieran, David

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Title Statements

Full title :Remote Warfare : New Cultures of Violence / Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran, editors.

Summary

Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare. Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained stuck in tired debates about practicality, efficacy, and ethics. Remote Warfare broadens the conversation, interrogating the cultural and political dimensions of distant warfare and examining how various stakeholders have responded to the reality of state-sponsored remote violence. The essays here represent a panoply of viewpoints, revealing overlooked histories of remoteness, novel methodologies, and new intellectual challenges. From the story arc of Homeland to redefining the idea of a "warrior," these thirteen pieces consider the new nature of surveillance, similarities between killing with drones and gaming, literature written by veterans, and much more. Timely and provocative, Remote Warfare makes significant and lasting contributions to our understanding of drones and the cultural forces that shape and sustain them.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Project Muse
Place of Publication:Baltimore, Maryland
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

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Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 337 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781452960975, 1452960976
oclc:on1206391357
LC Classification:UG1242.D7
Dewey Decimal:623.7469

Introduction : rethinking killing at a distance / Rebecca A. Adelman and David Kieran -- "An entirely new method of conducting war at a distance" : the First World War and the air war of the future / Michael Zeitlin -- Warrior woundings, warrior culture : an ethos for post-9/11 American war culture / David Buchanan -- From hermeneutics to archives : parasites and predators in homeland / Jens Borrebye Bjering and Andreas Immanuel Graae -- Eye in the sky : persistent surveillance technology and the age of global war / Nike Nivar Ortiz -- Of games and drones : mediating traumatic affect in the age of remote warfare / Michael Richardson -- Over there? War writing, lethal technology, and democracy in America / Tim Jelfs -- "Wanted dead or alive" : the hunt for Osama bin Laden / Annika Brunck -- Home, away, home : remoteness and intimacy in contemporary Danish veteran literature / Ann-Katrine S. Nielsen -- Necrospace, media, and remote war : ethnographic notes from Lebanon and Pakistan, 2006-2008 / Syed Irfan Ashraf and Kristin Shamas -- Drones versus drones : ambient and ambivalent sounds against remote warfare / Owen Coggins -- Bombs and black humor : aerial warfare and the absurd / B…

Subjects

Air warfare Air warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects Drone aircraft Drone aircraft -- Moral and ethical asp… Drone aircraft / Social aspects drone airplanes Drones Drones -- Aspect moral Drones -- Aspect social Guerre aérienne Guerre aérienne -- Aspect moral