Ordinary Emergency

Drones, Police, and Geographies of Legal Terror

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ID5774414
AuthorsTyler Wall (0000-0002-0453-4363, School of Justice Studies; Eastern Kentucky University; Richmond KY USA, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume48
Issue4
Pages1122-1139
Publication date2016-03-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntipode (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-4812 • E-ISSN: 1467-8330
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/anti.12228
OpenAlexW2292955669
LanguageEN
Citations received52
References cited24

This paper brings into conversation two ostensibly disparate geographies of state violence: the routine police surveillance and killing of members of the "dangerous classes" in the United States, an issue that is in no way new but nevertheless has gained increased attention over the last year with the Black Lives Matter movement; and the targeted drone strikes against "terrorist suspects" in the "war on terror". By laying side by side the "war drone" and domestic police power, it becomes readily apparent that despite ostensible differences-foreign vs. domestic, war vs. peace, exceptional vs. normal, military vs. police, legal vs. extralegal-the unmanning of state violence gains much of its political and legal force from the language and categories that have long animated the routine policing of domestic territory. The paper calls for taking the violence of police power more seriously than many drone commentators have

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