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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing

    On Drones, Counter-Insurgency, and Violence

    by Kyle Grayson ...
    Series series Interventions
    The deployment of remotely piloted air platforms (RPAs) - or drones - has become a defining feature of contemporary counter-insurgency operations. Scholarly analysis and public debate has primarily focused on two issues: the legality of targeted killing and whether the practice is effective at disrupting insurgency networks, and the intensive media and activist scrutiny of the policy processes ... Read more

    PHP3,649.71

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  • The Media and Political Process

    by Eric Louw ...
    How have professional communicators transformed the business of politics? How do political bodies use the media to sell domestic and foreign policies to the public? This fully revised new edition of The Media and Political Process assesses the impact of spin doctoring and media activity in liberal democracies that are just as concerned with impression management and public relations as with policy ... Read more

    PHP4,647.39

  • Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

    The Ethics of an Unmanned Military

    Edited by Bradley Jay Strawser ...
    The increased military employment of remotely operated aerial vehicles, also known as drones, has raised a wide variety of important ethical questions, concerns, and challenges. Many of these have not yet received the serious scholarly examination such worries rightly demand. This volume attempts to fill that gap through sustained analysis of a wide range of specific moral issues that arise from ... Read more

    PHP4,119.09

  • Bring 'Em On

    Media and Politics in the Iraq War

    by Douglas Kellner, Heinz Brandenburg, Lisa Brooten, Elisia L. Cohen, Timothy M. Cole, Prof. Christian Fuchs, Mike Gasher, William B. Hart0, Fran Hassencahl1, Adel Iskandar2, Liz Jacka3, Andrew Jakubowicz4, Sue Curry Jansen5, Robert Jensen6, Matthew A. Killmeier7, Debra Merskin8, Tanja Thomas9, Fabian Virchow0 ...
    Series series Communication, Media, and Politics
    How were the American people prepared for the war on Iraq? How have political agents and media gatekeepers sought to develop public support for the first preventive war of the modern age? Bring 'Em On highlights the complex links between media and politics, analyzing how communication practices are modified in times of crisis to protect political interests or implement political goals. ... Read more

    PHP3,263.79

  • The Changing Faces of Journalism

    Tabloidization, Technology and Truthiness

    by Barbie Zelizer ...
    Series series Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies
    The collection is introduced with an essay by Barbie Zelizer and organized into three sections: how tabloidization affects the journalistic landscape; how technology changes what we think we know about journalism; and how ‘truthiness’ tweaks our understanding of the journalistic tradition. Short section introductions contextualise the essays and highlight the issues that they raise, creating a ... Read more

    PHP3,765.59

  • Cyberterrorism

    Understanding, Assessment, and Response

    Edited by Lee Jarvis, Stuart Macdonald, Thomas M. Chen ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This is the first book to present a multidisciplinary approach to cyberterrorism. It traces the threat posed by cyberterrorism today, with chapters discussing possible technological vulnerabilities, potential motivations to engage in cyberterrorism, and the challenges of distinguishing this from other cyber threats. The book also addresses the range of potential responses to this threat by ... Read more

    PHP3,992.49

  • Weaponizing Anthropology

    Social Science in Service of the Militarized State

    by David H. Price ...
    Series series Counterpunch
    The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. David H. ... Read more

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  • Drone Warfare and Lawfare in a Post-Heroic Age

    by Marouf Hasian ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Law, and the Humanities
    In the past decade, the United States has rapidly deployed militarized drones in theaters of war for surveillance as well as targeted killing. The swiftness with which drones were created and put into service has outstripped the development of an associated framework for discussing them, with the result that basic conversations about these lethal weapons have been stymied for a lack of a shared ... Read more

    PHP2,083.79

  • Making Things International 2

    Catalysts and Reactions

    Edited by Mark B. Salter ...
    Drawing widely from contemporary social and critical thought, Making Things International 2 offers provocative interventions into debates about causality, connection, and politics through the notion of assemblage. Political assemblages, especially those that cross national borders, can be catalyzed by a host of surprising sparks. Present-day global systems are complex and interdependent, but the ... Read more

    PHP1,460.19

  • Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency

    Edited by John D. Kelly, Beatrice Jauregui, Sean T. Mitchell, Jeremy Walton ...
    Global events of the early twenty-first century have placed new stress on the relationship among anthropology, governance, and war. Facing prolonged insurgency, segments of the U.S. military have taken a new interest in anthropology, prompting intense ethical and scholarly debate. Inspired by these issues, the essays in Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency consider how anthropologists can, ... Read more

    PHP1,751.79

  • Interpreting Justice

    Ethics, Politics and Language

    by Moira Inghilleri ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    In this timely study, Inghilleri examines the interface between ethics, language, and politics during acts of interpreting, with reference to two particular sites of transnational conflict: the political and judicial context of asylum adjudication and the geo-political context of war. The book characterizes the social and moral spaces in which the translation of the spoken word occurs in ways that ... Read more

    PHP4,808.53

  • Routledge Handbook of Security Studies

    Edited by Myriam Dunn Cavelty, Thierry Balzacq ...
    This revised and updated second edition features over twenty new chapters and offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies.The field of Security Studies has undergone significant change during the past 20 years, and is now one of the most dynamic sub-disciplines within International Relations. This second edition has been ... Read more

    PHP4,287.06