(Non)-lethality and war: tear gas as a weapon of governmental intervention
| Autor: | Miguel de Larrinaga |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 02 engineering and technology Colonialism Object (philosophy) Trace (semiology) Tear gas Intervention (law) Law Political economy Political Science and International Relations Lethality Sociology 050703 geography Biopower Governmentality |
| Zdroj: | Critical Studies on Terrorism. 9:522-540 |
| ISSN: | 1753-9161 1753-9153 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17539153.2016.1197626 |
| Popis: | This article attempts to think through the relationship between lethality and war through the object of tear gas from its invention to contemporary uses. First, I examine the way in which tear gas migrates from a zone of lethal/non-lethal conceptual indistinction, to one where the same rationalities operate but the intent of their use is opposed in relation to life and death. Second, from this biopolitical distinction, I trace its use in the governing of colonial populations and populations under occupation, and its recent weaponisation in “domestic” spaces. These contemporary uses of tear gas, I argue, can be seen as what Sloterdijk would call “atmosterror” which contribute to blurring the lines between war and peace. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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