Targeting in international law : counterinsurgency and the legal materiality of the principle of distinction / Amin Parsa.
2024
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Author
Title
Targeting in international law : counterinsurgency and the legal materiality of the principle of distinction / Amin Parsa.
Imprint
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
Copyright
©2024
Description
1 online resource (xii, 171 pages) : illustrations.
Series
Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
Formatted Contents Note
Visibility, materiality, and targeting in contemporary counterinsurgency
Knowledge-vision : the making of a legitimate human target
Military uniform as a technology of visuality
Targeting in counterinsurgency
From the military uniform to the disposition matrix : 'If we decide (someone) is a bad person, the people with him are also bad.'
Knowledge-vision : the making of a legitimate human target
Military uniform as a technology of visuality
Targeting in counterinsurgency
From the military uniform to the disposition matrix : 'If we decide (someone) is a bad person, the people with him are also bad.'
Summary
"This book is about how distinctions are drawn between civilians and combatants in modern warfare and how the legal principle of distinction depends on the technical means through which combatants make themselves visibly distinguishable from civilians. The author demonstrates that technologies of visualisation have always been part of the operation of the principle of distinction, arguing that the military uniform sustained the legal categories of civilian and combatant and actively set the boundaries of permissible and prohibited targeting, and so legal and illegal killing. Drawing upon insights from the theory of legal materiality, visual studies, critical fashion studies, and a dozen of military manuals, Parsa shows that far from being passive objects of regulation, these technologies help to draw the boundaries of the legitimate target. The book explores the co-productive relationship between law, technologies of visualisation, and legitimation of violence"-- Provided by the publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Historical Data
Amin Parsa is an assistant professor in the sociology of law at Halmstad University, Sweden, and an affiliate researcher of sociology of law at the Law Department at Lund University, Sweden. He holds a doctoral degree in public international law from Lund University.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (viewed May 3, 2024).
Available in Other Form
Print version: Parsa, Amin. Targeting in international law Abingdon, Oxon [UK] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023
Access Note
Open access
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Alternate Title
Taylor & Francis
Language
English
ISBN
9781003121947 (electronic book)
1003121942 (electronic book)
1003818927 (electronic book : PDF)
9781003819035 (electronic book : EPUB)
1003819036 (electronic book : EPUB)
9781003818922 (electronic book)
9780367640545 (hardback)
9780367640552 (paperback)
1003121942 (electronic book)
1003818927 (electronic book : PDF)
9781003819035 (electronic book : EPUB)
1003819036 (electronic book : EPUB)
9781003818922 (electronic book)
9780367640545 (hardback)
9780367640552 (paperback)
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