TY - BOOK ID - 6193355 TI - Frames of war : when is life grievable? PY - 2009 SN - 9781844673339 1844673332 9781784782474 PB - London Verso DB - UniCat KW - Violence KW - Political violence KW - Mass media and public opinion KW - Right and left (Political science) KW - Social aspects KW - Political aspects KW - Political violence. KW - Political aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - Right and left (Political science). KW - Violent behavior KW - Social psychology KW - Left (Political science) KW - Left and right (Political science) KW - Right (Political science) KW - Political science KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Terrorism KW - Violence - Social aspects KW - Violence - Political aspects KW - Mass media and public opinion - United States KW - Philosophical anthropology KW - General ethics KW - Sociology of culture KW - Social problems KW - terrorism KW - politics KW - mass media KW - communicatiemedia KW - politiek KW - communicatietheorieën KW - racisme UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:6193355 AB - Profound exploration of the current wars, looking at violence, gender and different forms of resistance. In Frames of War, Judith Butler explores the media’s portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. This portrayal has saturated our understanding of human life, and has led to the exploitation and abandonment of whole peoples, who are cast as existential threats rather than as living populations in need of protection. These people are framed as already lost, to imprisonment, unemployment and starvation, and can easily be dismissed. In the twisted logic that rationalizes their deaths, the loss of such populations is deemed necessary to protect the lives of 'the living.' This disparity, Butler argues, has profound implications for why and when we feel horror, outrage, guilt, loss and righteous indifference, both in the context of war and, increasingly, everyday life. This book discerns the resistance to the frames of war in the context of the images from Abu Ghraib, the poetry from Guantanamo, recent European policy on immigration and Islam, and debates on normativity and non-violence. In this urgent response to ever more dominant methods of coercion, violence and racism, Butler calls for a re-conceptualization of the Left, one that brokers cultural difference and cultivates resistance to the illegitimate and arbitrary effects of state violence and its vicissitudes. ER -