Frames of war: when is life grievable?

Medientyp: Buch

Titel: Frames of war : when is life grievable?

Beteiligte: Butler, Judith [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: London; New York: Verso, 2016

Umfang: xxx, 193 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN: 9781784782474; 1784782475

RVK-Notation: CI 6388 : Primärliteratur
MK 3400 : Sonstige Einzelfragen, Streitkräfte

Schlagwörter: USA > Gewaltmonopol > Gewaltkriminalität > Kriegsverbrechen > Folter

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Anmerkungen: Erstmalig erschienen bei Verso 2009

Beschreibung: "Frames of War begins where Butler's Precarious Lives left off: on the idea that we cannot grieve for those lost lives that we never saw as lives to begin with. In this age of CNN-mediated war, the lives of those wretched populations of the earth -- the refugees; the victims of unjust imprisonment and torture; the immigrants virtually enslaved by their starvation and legal disenfranchisement -- are always presented to us as already irretrievable and thereby already lost. We may shake our heads at their wretchedness but then we sacrifice them nonetheless, for they are already forgone. By analyzing the different frames through which we experience war, Butler calls for a reorientation of the Left toward the precarity of those lives. Only by recognizing those lives as precarious lives -- lives that are not yet lost but are ever fragile and in need of protection -- might the Left stand in unity against the violence perpetrated through arbitrary state power. -- Publisher description

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