Kafkaesque Laws, Nisour Square, and the Trials of the Former Blackwater Guards

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

This book provides academics and lay persons with Kafkaesque readings of our memories of the 2007 Nisour Square shootings in Iraq. The author uses critical analyses of the rise of Blackwater, support for private security firms and private contracting, prosecutorial and defense preparations and the 2014 jury trial to argue that most observers have drastically underestimated the groundswell of support that existed for Erik Prince and many other defenders of military or security outsourcing. This book puts on display the cultural, legal, and political difficulties that confronted those who wanted to try former Blackwater security guards in the name of belated social justice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-11-22
Mått:159 x 238 x 23 mm
Vikt:508 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Associated University Presses
ISBN:9781683930594

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Marouf Hasian Jr. is professor of communication at the University of Utah and author of Representing Ebola: Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013–2015 West African Ebola Outbreak (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2016).

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AcknowledgmentsChapter One — Introduction: Kafka, and the Chaotic Rhetorical Cultures of Mercenaries andPrivate Military CompaniesChapter Two — Operation Iraq Freedom and the Rise of Blackwater, Inc.Chapter Three — Creative Destruction, Iraqi Sentiments, and Early Prosecutorial Narratives of“What Happened” at Nisour Square, 2007-2008Chapter Four — The Demise of Blackwater and the Tales of Primate Military Corporate“Accountability,” 2009-2013Chapter Five — The 2014 Criminal Trials of Paul Slough, Nicholas Slatten, and the OtherBlackwater DefendantsChapter Six — Remembrances of Blackwater and the Advent of the “New Humanitarian”Private ContractorsBibliographyAbout the Author