Re-visioning the “Eye in the Sky”
Targeted drone strikes and an ethics of the encounter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12919205 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M J Robson (0000-0001-8642-9980, Universities UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 100-117 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies on Terrorism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9161 • E-ISSN: 1753-9153 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17539153.2019.1658414 |
| OpenAlex | W2974105248 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 30 |
The complexities which beset any attempts to ascribe a foundational ethic to matters of a political stripe are well known, and continue to provoke fierce debate within studies of international relations, geopolitics and security studies. Unsurprisingly, these questions have taken on crucial import within the sub-field of critical terrorism studies (CTS), as authors grapple with the range of counter-terrorism, counter-radicalisation and counter-extremism practices enacted by the Western state as part of an ongoing ‘War on Terror.’ And while much of this scholarship has been invaluable in problematizing the concept of ‘terrorism’ per se, normative questions have proven somewhat more elusive. Through a reading of the film Eye in the Sky, along with its take on the controversial counter-terrorism practice of targeted drone assassinations, this article reiterates the case for an ethical approach which takes radical difference as the basis for any engagement with the Other. Moreover, and following international relations authors of a poststructuralist lineage, it will be argued that supplementing Levinasian ethics with Derridean deconstruction can open up new and useful ways of approaching such seemingly intractable ethical conundrums
Counter terrorism · Deconstruction (building · Drone · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geopolitics · International relations · Normative · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Terrorism · Law · Philosophy · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence · Torture, Ethics, and Law · War, Ethics, and Justification
National deconstruction
The Liberal Way of War
Moral Predators
Poststructuralism and Postmodernism in International Relations
Totality and Infinity
Drones, state terrorism and international law
The (non) event of state terror
CTS, counterterrorism and non-violence
A CTS model of counterterrorism
Totalitarian tendencies in drone strikes by states
Dialogue, praxis and the state
Critical Terrorism Studies–an introduction
A history of drones
Introduction
State terrorism
Emancipation and Critical Terrorism Studies
The Core Commitments of Critical Terrorism Studies
Performative Powerlessness
The Deterritorialization of Responsibility
Security and emancipation
Five Problems in Levinas’s View of Politics and the Sketch of a Solution to them
The Inseparability of Ethics and Politics
The poverty of neorealism
Eyes in the sky - bodies on the ground
The everywhere war
Virtuous War/Virtual Theory
Philosophy in a Time of Terror
From a View to a Kill
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |