Islamic State, Biopolitics and Media Governmentality

The Dispositif of Terror
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-35315-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 367 g

Reihe: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

This book analyses the Islamic State’s (IS) media and governance strategy from a critical media and cultural studies perspective.

It deploys Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblage and Foucault’s theories of dispositif (dispositive, apparatus) and biopower to understand the ways in which IS governed its subjects during the tenure of its so-called ‘caliphate’. This theoretical triangulation is used to situate the group as more than just a terrorist organisation, but rather as a more amorphous force with proclivities toward governance. The analysis of globally fluid and conjunctive terrorist strategies executed through media, governance and conduct, as part of and produced by IS’s dispositif, manifests in the group’s epistemology, discourse and social ontology. To analyse these processes, the book deploys a dispositif analysis of official IS administrative documents, media produced by the group’s English-language media wing (al-Hayat Media Center), and IS Twitter activity, including the use of nonhuman bots. In doing so, it seeks to reveal the resonance between IS’s media and governmental discourses, develop dispositif theory, and to argue for more context-specific formulations of biopolitics.

This book will be of much interest to students of Critical Terrorism Studies, social theory, media theory and International Relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rarm, Lewis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Mapping the Dispositif: Power, Knowledge, and Subjectivity in the Islamic State 2. Governing the IS Mediascape 3. The Machinic Entourage: Terror and the Nonhuman 4. Mediating Governance: Conduct, Space, Exchange 5. Biopolitical Configurations in the Islamic State’s Administrative Apparatus  Coda: Regularisation and Resilience

Über Autor(innen)

Lewis Rarm is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington.