Lindsay Clark

Gender and Drone Warfare (eBook, ePUB)

A Hauntological Perspective

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates how drone warfare is deeply gendered and how this can be explored through the methodological framework of 'Haunting'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429017421
• Artikelnr.: 57498082

Autorenporträt

Lindsay Clark is a research fellow at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia, and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Birmingham, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. (Dis)embodied Warfare is Ghostly 1. Theorising Military Technologies 2. Haunting 3. H(a)unting the Warrior 4. Grim Reapers - Narratives of Masculinity and Killing 5. The Spectral Screwdriver - On Watching and Being Watched 6. Eroded Souls - Operational Challenges to Masculinity Conclusion

Rezensionen

'Drone technology is not only shaping the nature of warfare but also the perceived nature of the soldier, as Clark [...] explores in this book. Being distant from the battlefield, drone pilots are not in immediate physical danger, which has the perceived effect of feminizing their warrior status. However, by combining the methodology of "haunting" (drawing on Jacques Derrida's notion of "hauntology": paying attention to unseen spaces, non-linearity, and intuitions) with Cynthia Weber's queer logics, Clark argues that the pilot's experiences actually exceed the masculine/feminine binary and disrupt traditional gendered understandings of warfare. Clark clearly lays out the applicability of both methodological frameworks, illustrating each with narrative examples. Hauntology, for instance, "discomforts" the interwoven binaries surrounding issues of complex personhood, ruptured and distorted temporalities, power, and in/(hyper)visibility. Queer logic, meanwhile, allows for the coexistence of opposing "sides," such as the drone pilot being simultaneously present and far from the battlefield. A solid contribution to the "Routledge Studies in Gender and Security" series, this text provides a novel theoretical model with larger implications for feminist security studies. umming Up: Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.'--S. J. Shaw, Antioch University, CHOICE