Full Description
In Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more-than-human entities-from soil and orchards to animals and water-are actors and agents in their own right with legitimate claims to justice. Examining occupied Palestine, GuantÁnamo, and sites of US drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, Pugliese challenges notions of human exceptionalism by arguing that more-than-human victims of war and colonialism are entangled with and subject to the same violent biopolitical regimes as humans. He also draws on Indigenous epistemologies that invest more-than-human entities with judicial standing to argue for an ethico-legal framework that will enable the realization of ecological justice. Bringing the more-than-human world into the purview of justice, Pugliese makes visible the ecological effects of human war that would otherwise remain outside the domains of biopolitics and law.
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Zoopolitics of the Cage 39
2. Biopolitical Modalities of the More-Than-Human and Their Forensic Ecologies 81
3. Animal Excendence and Inanimal Torture 124
4. Drone Sparagmos 166
Afterword 203
Notes 217
Bibliography 255
Index
