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O'Tuathail, 1992 |
Geopolitics = a discursive practice whereby intellectuals of statecraft spatialise international politics, representing the world according to certain characteristics |
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Dalby, 2003 |
Geopolitics = how the world is spatialised/divided according to a certain hierarchy, framing the world so that politicians/the public act in a certain way 9/11 = USA responded with war... political ambiguities left an empty discursive space which politicians filled with their own interpretation/response |
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Kaldor, 1990 |
How we choose to describe the world influences how we see it and then how we act |
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Huntington, 1996 |
Clash of civilisations (us vs them) 'The conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural faultlines separating civilisations' |
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Said |
Orientalism A form of imaginative geography: Middle East as risky/dangerous |
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Hewitt, 1983 |
Polarising 'us' and 'them' creates a sentimental attachment to us and our people/land, whilst devaluing or dehumanising 'them' and creating a readiness to destroy the other/enemy |
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Graham, 2006 |
Organised political violence is sustained and legitimised by complex imaginative geographies Discursive construction of war on terror is deeply market by reworking imaginative geographies separating USA homeland from Arab cities as sources of terrorism or threat |
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Derek Gregory |
The war on terror is the violent return of the colonial past |
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Barnett, 2004 |
Optical detachment: distance result in lessening impact |
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Jones et al, 2006 |
Bodies are reduced to targets on an isometric grid far detached from the brutal Real |
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Obama |
American and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition |
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McCrisken, 2011 |
Obama didn't use the word 'terrorism': reconstructing narrative But Obama's war agains terrorism is in keeping with the assumptions/priorities of the previous 10 years... ...he struggled to override the existing narrative, and remained committed to the interpretation of 9/11 justifying continued military intervention |
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Jackson, 2011 |
Bush administration constructed a deeply resonating narrative, deeply embedded assumptions of an imminent threat to the USA, meaning the war on terrorism was institutionalised as common sense or a regime of truth in US society |
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Elden, 2009 |
Sovereignty is a process where states have duties to uphold |
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Shaw et al, 2012 |
Afghanistan: failed to control its territory, so its sovereignty is no longer guaranteed... ...not blaming the victim, but this judicial abandonment creates a context conducive for international intervention |
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Sovereignty |
Ultimate authority over a territory, recognised by other states. Authority to create laws, have the monopoly on legitimate violence (Weber) and declare the state of exception (Schmitt) |
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Vogel, 2011 |
Drone warfare characterised Obama era More drone strikes in Obama's first year than previous 8 years combined under Bush Increasing challenges to the legality and morality of drone strikes (killing without judicial process) |
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Burridge, 2009 |
Drones = control from a distance, creates a virtueless war where controllers are separated from danger/sacrifice |
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Koh, 2010 |
America has its own responsibilities to its people to use force to defend itself |
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Bialasiewicz et al, 2007 |
Materiality of war is coiled up in a discursive system The drone performs an imaginative geography (signature killings: based on pre-assumed stereotypes) |
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Hall, 1992
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Discourse is a way of talking about or representing the world. It produces knowledge which influences perception and practice. It is an important part of the way in which power operates. |
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Foucault |
Regime of Truth: The types of discourse society accepts and makes function as true Power: not possessed, but exercised in relationships Knowledge: subjective, produced through discourse |
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Shapiro, 1997 |
Architectures of enmity: how you practice meanings of self and other can create conditions of possibility for treating other as a threat |
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Schwedler, 2013 |
For many in the West, the Middle East has always been exotic, a land of endless desert, warriors on camelback, and veiled women confined to harems |
