The introduction proposes that a contrapuntal reading of cultural representations of drones intervenes into the imperial discourse that supports the use of armed drones to perpetuate racialization of the people in the Global South, and their colonization through technologies of violence. This chapter also complicates the concept of a rights-bearing subject, arguing that by targeting the suspected terrorists with drones, the United States constructed the category of a suspect race expelled from human rights discourse for their supposed crime. The Empire invokes suspicion as a necropolitical tool against the racialized subjects and exposes them to death outside the rights framework.

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Introduction: Drones, Rights and Culture

  • Muhammad Waqar Azeem

摘要

The introduction proposes that a contrapuntal reading of cultural representations of drones intervenes into the imperial discourse that supports the use of armed drones to perpetuate racialization of the people in the Global South, and their colonization through technologies of violence. This chapter also complicates the concept of a rights-bearing subject, arguing that by targeting the suspected terrorists with drones, the United States constructed the category of a suspect race expelled from human rights discourse for their supposed crime. The Empire invokes suspicion as a necropolitical tool against the racialized subjects and exposes them to death outside the rights framework.