Chemical Bodies - The Techno-Politics of Control

In warfare, civil unrest, and political protest, chemicals have served as means of coercion, suppression, and manipulation. This book examines how chemical agents have been justified, utilised and resisted as means of control.

List of contents

Acknowledgements / Abbreviations / Transgressive Chemicals, Brian Rappert and Alex Mankoo / From Reviled Poisons to State Arsenals: The Un(necessary) Proliferation of Chemical Weapons, Jeanne Guillemin / Lesser Appreciations: A History of Inter-War Chemical Warfare, James Revill & Marcos Favero / Biological Warfare, Chemical Warfare and the Public Body, Etienne Aucouturier / Opening Spaces through Exhibiting Absences: Representing Secretive Pasts, Brian Rappert, Kathryn Smith, and Chandré Gould / Tear Gas Epistemology: The Himsworth Committee and Weapons as Drugs, Brian Balmer, Alex Spelling, Caitriona McLeish / What Counts as a Chemical Weapon?: The Category of Law Enforcement in the Chemical Weapons Convention, Michael Crowley / Tear Gas and Colonial Bodies in the British Interwar Period, Anna Feigenbaum / Controlling and Caring for Public Bodies: Civil Defence Gas Tests in WWII Britain, Alex Mankoo / 'Chemical Bodies' and the Future of Control, Alex Mankoo and Brian Rappert

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Edited by Alex Mankoo and Brian Rappert

Product details

• Assisted by: Alex Mankoo (Editor), Brian Rappert (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2020
• EAN: 9781786616517
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-651-7
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 349 g
• Series: Geopolitical Bodies, Material Worlds
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Geopolitics, military history, HISTORY / Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Chemical & biological weapons, Chemical and biological weapons