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Kafkaesque laws, Nisour Square, and the trials of the former Blackwater guards
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"This book provides...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 firm...
"This book provides...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."--
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- Creator
- Marouf A. Hasian, Jr
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Vancouver ; Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2018]
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- viii, 215 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1683930592, 9781683930594, 1683930606, 9781683930600, 9781683930600
- OCLC
- on1004376073
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : Kafka, and the chaotic rhetorical cultures of mercenaries and private military companies -- "Operation Iraq Freedom" and the rise of Blackwater, Inc -- Creative destruction, Iraqi sentiments, and early prosecutorial narratives of "what happened" at Nisour Square, 2007-2008 -- The demise of Blackwater and the tales of primate military corporate accountability, 2009-2013 -- The 2014 criminal trials of Paul Slough, Nicholas Slatten, and the other Blackwater defendants -- Remembrances of Blackwater and the advent of the new humanitarian private contractors