1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910745577403321

Autore

Enemark Christian

Titolo

Moralities of Drone Violence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh University Press

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.) : ill

Disciplina

174.9355

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Moral uncertainty surrounding the use of armed drones has been a persistent problem for more than two decades. In response, Moralities of Drone Violenceaims to provide greater clarity by exploring and ordering a variety of ways in which violent drone use can be judged as just or unjust in various circumstances. The book organises moral ideas around a series of concepts of 'drone violence': warfare, violent law enforcement, tele-intimate violence, and violence devolved from humans to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. In contrast to the way armed drones tend to be debated narrowly in terms of war and law, this broad-based approach to normative inquiry affords more scope to discern and address the potential for these weapon systems to support moral progress or to generate injustice.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910953388903321

Autore

Cohen Deborah <1968->

Titolo

Braceros : migrant citizens and transnational subjects in the postwar United States and Mexico / / Deborah Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill [N.C.], : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

979-88-908826-7-7

979-88-9313-304-2

1-4696-0339-X

0-8078-9967-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 p.)

Disciplina

331.5/44097309045

331.544097309045

Soggetti

Migrant agricultural laborers - United States - History - 20th century

Mexicans - United States - History - 20th century

Migrant labor - Government policy - United States - History - 20th century

Transnationalism

United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Mexico Emigration and immigration Social aspects

United States Foreign economic relations Mexico

Mexico Foreign economic relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Agriculture, state expectations, and the configuration of citizenship -- Narrating class and nation: agribusiness and the construction of grower narratives -- Manhood, the lure of migration, and contestations of the modern -- Rites of movement, technologies of power: making migrants modern from home to the border -- With hunched back and on bended knee: race, work, and the modern north of the border -- Strikes against solidarity: containing domestic farmworkers' agency -- Border of belonging, border of foreignness: patriarchy, the modern, and making transnational Mexicanness -- Tipping the negotiating hand: state-to-state struggle and the impact of migrant agency.



Sommario/riassunto

At the beginning of World War II, the United States and Mexico launched the bracero program, a series of labor agreements that brought Mexican men to work temporarily in U.S. agricultural fields. In Braceros, historian Deborah Cohen asks why these temporary migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States and what the Mexican government expected to gain in participating in the program. Cohen reveals the fashioning of a U.S.-Mexican transnational world, a world created through the interactions, negotiations, and struggles of the program's principal protagonists includin