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Targeting, gender and international posthumanitarian law and practice: Warfare in the age of data–driven agency
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- Arvidsson, Matilda, 1976 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Juridiska institutionen,Department of Law
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- 2017
- 2017
- English.
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In: Kent workshop in International Law and theory.
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- Focusing on targeting law and practice in contemporary warfare this article brings international humanitarian legal scholarship into conversation with posthumainist feminist theory for the purpose of thinking more carefully about the challenges for international humanitarian law (IHL) in the age of data-driven agency. I suggest that posthumanist feminist scholarship – in particular the work of Rosi Braidotti – is helpful to the IHL scholar for understanding and describing how contemporary warfare is already conducted and how the targetable body known through the IHL framework of seeing/knowing is necessarily already both material and to this, now also directly digital. Posthumanist ontology, moreover, avails a much needed critical position from which to question the ‘human’ and ‘humanitarian’ aim in IHL. A posthumanist turn in IHL – a posthumanitarian international law – which acknowledges and protects life beyond the anthropocenic world-order avails, I argue, a better description to IHL and scholarship of how contemporary warfare practice operates and how life and death in the post-anthropocene is already taking place since long.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Juridik -- Juridik och samhälle (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Law -- Law and Society (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- international humanitarian law
- IHL
- targeting
- posthumanistic feminist theory
- data-driven agency
- Rosi Braidotti
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- vet (subject category)
- kon (subject category)
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