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Necropolitical Law and the Justification of Violence in the War on Terror

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Jothie Rajah. Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 May 2023

Edgar Illas*
Affiliation:
Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States. Email: eillas@indiana.edu

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International Book Essays
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation

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Footnotes

Illas’s research interests lie in war studies, Marxism, and biopolitics; his field of specialization is modern Catalan culture. He is the author of The Survival Regime: Global War and the Political (Routledge, 2020) and Thinking Barcelona: Ideologies of a Global City (Liverpool University Press, 2012).

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