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OverviewThis work examines violence in the age of the terror wars with an eye toward the technologies of governance that create, facilitate, and circulate that violence. In performing a rhetorical cartography that explores the rise of the US armed drone program as well as moments of resistive violence that occurred during the Arab Spring directed at generating a counter-hegemony by Muslim populations, the author argues that the problem of the global terror wars is best addressed by a rhetorical understanding of the ways that governments, as well as individual subjects, turn to violence as a response to, or product of, the post September 11th terror society. When political examinations of terrorism are facilitated through understandings of discourse, clearer maps emerge of how violence functions to offer mechanisms by which governing bodies, and their subjects, evaluate the success or failure of the “War on Terror.” This book will be of interest to public policymakers and informed general readers as well as students and scholars in the fields of rhetoric, political theory, critical geography, US foreign relations/policy, war and peace studies, and cultural studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Heather Ashley HayesPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2016 Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 3.947kg ISBN: 9781137480989ISBN 10: 113748098 Pages: 207 Publication Date: 17 June 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Figures/Photographs.- Dedication.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction: Introducing Rhetoricoviolence.- 1.The Materiality of Rhetoric and Violence.- 2.Rhetorical Cartography: Mapping the Terror Wars.- 3.Violent Subjects.- 4.The Buzzing of the Drones.- 5.Mapping the Disposal of Terrorist Bodies.- 6.Occupying Tahrir: Resistance, Violence, and Political Change.- Conclusion: The Terror Wars Drone On…Or Don’t They?.- Bibliography.- NotesReviewsAuthor InformationHeather Ashley Hayes is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at Whitman College, USA. Her research traverses the intersections of rhetoric, race, violence, and the global terror wars. She has published work with academic journals such as Quarterly Journal of Speech and Argumentation and Advocacy and her work has been featured in a number of book publications. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |