Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human: Forensic Ecologies of Violence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478008026)

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, Guant疣amo, 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.

Author: Joseph Pugliese
ISBN-10: 1478008024
ISBN-13: 9781478008026
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2020
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2021