Drones and the uninsurable security subjects

This paper engages with the security dynamics underlying the use of drones and their impact on security subjects - individuals and groups that are the ultimate recipients of specific security policies, regardless of whether these have beneficial effects on them. Using Mark Duffield's distinctio...

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Published inThird world quarterly Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 253 - 269
Main Authors Barrinha, André, da Mota, Sarah
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Routledge 01.02.2017
Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Air transportation
Armed forces
counter-terrorism
Counterterrorism
Drones
International security
National security
North and South
power
Radicalism
Security policy
terrorism
uninsured subjects
US security policy
United States > US
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ISSN0143-6597
1360-2241
DOI10.1080/01436597.2016.1205440

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Summary:This paper engages with the security dynamics underlying the use of drones and their impact on security subjects - individuals and groups that are the ultimate recipients of specific security policies, regardless of whether these have beneficial effects on them. Using Mark Duffield's distinction between the insured Global North and the non-insured Global South, this paper discusses how drones generate a radical dissociation between the intervener and the intervened that ultimately produces new security environments at the margins of the international system. These new security environments are defined by the articulation between space, technologies and bodies: bodies of invisible subjects; bodies that are uninsurable.
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ISSN:0143-6597
1360-2241
DOI:10.1080/01436597.2016.1205440