Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Gender and drone warfare: a hauntological perspective

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in gender and securityPublication details: Routledge 2019 OxonDescription: ix, 198 p. Includes references and indexISBN:
  • 9781138580275
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 358.424 C5G3
Summary: This book investigates how drone warfare is deeply gendered and how this can be explored through the methodological framework of ‘Haunting’. Utilizing original interview data from British Reaper drone crews, the book analyses the way killing by drones complicates traditional understandings of masculinity and femininity in warfare. As their role does not include physical risk, drone crews have been critiqued for failing to meet the masculine requirements necessary to be considered ‘warriors’ and have been derided for feminizing war. However, this book argues that drone warfare, and the experiences of the crews, exceeds the traditional masculine/feminine binary and suggests a new approach to explore this issue. The framework of Haunting presented here draws on the insights of Jacques Derrida, Avery Gordon, and others to highlight four key themes complex personhood, in/(hyper)visibility, disturbed temporality, and power as frames through which the intersection of gender and drone warfare can be examined. This book argues that Haunting provides a framework for both revealing and destabilizing gendered binaries of use for feminist security studies and International Relations scholars, as well as shedding light on British drone warfare. This book will be of interest to students of gender studies, sociology, war studies, and critical security studies. https://www.routledge.com/Gender-and-Drone-Warfare-A-Hauntological-Perspective/Clark/p/book/9781138580275
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Item location Collection Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Vikram Sarabhai Library Rack 25-A / Slot 1129 (0 Floor, East Wing) Non-fiction General Stacks 358.424 C5G3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 202039

Table of Contents

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

This book investigates how drone warfare is deeply gendered and how this can be explored through the methodological framework of ‘Haunting’.
Utilizing original interview data from British Reaper drone crews, the book analyses the way killing by drones complicates traditional understandings of masculinity and femininity in warfare. As their role does not include physical risk, drone crews have been critiqued for failing to meet the masculine requirements necessary to be considered ‘warriors’ and have been derided for feminizing war. However, this book argues that drone warfare, and the experiences of the crews, exceeds the traditional masculine/feminine binary and suggests a new approach to explore this issue. The framework of Haunting presented here draws on the insights of Jacques Derrida, Avery Gordon, and others to highlight four key themes complex personhood, in/(hyper)visibility, disturbed temporality, and power as frames through which the intersection of gender and drone warfare can be examined. This book argues that Haunting provides a framework for both revealing and destabilizing gendered binaries of use for feminist security studies and International Relations scholars, as well as shedding light on British drone warfare.
This book will be of interest to students of gender studies, sociology, war studies, and critical security studies.

https://www.routledge.com/Gender-and-Drone-Warfare-A-Hauntological-Perspective/Clark/p/book/9781138580275

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.