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Islamic State, Biopolitics, and Media Governmentality: The Dispositif of Terror

Islamic State, Biopolitics, and Media Governmentality: The Dispositif of Terror

Rarm, Lewis

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Series: Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1032353163
ISBN13: 9781032353166
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 27 2025
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book analyses the Islamic State's (IS) media and governance strategy from a critical media and cultural studies perspective.

It deploys Deleuze and Guattari's concept of assemblage and Foucault's theories of dispositif (dispositive, apparatus) and biopower to understand the ways in which IS governed its subjects during the tenure of its so-called 'caliphate'. This theoretical triangulation is used to situate the group as more than just a terrorist organisation, but rather as a more amorphous force with proclivities toward governance. The analysis of globally fluid and conjunctive terrorist strategies executed through media, governance and conduct, as part of and produced by IS's dispositif, manifests in the group's epistemology, discourse and social ontology. To analyse these processes, the book deploys a dispositif analysis of official IS administrative documents, media produced by the group's English-language media wing (al-Hayat Media Center), and IS Twitter activity, including the use of nonhuman bots. In doing so, it seeks to reveal the resonance between IS's media and governmental discourses, develop dispositif theory, and to argue for more context-specific formulations of biopolitics.

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