Hellfire from Paradise Ranch: On the Front Lines of Drone Warfare

Zulaika, Joseba

ISBN 10: 0520329740 / ISBN 13: 9780520329744

Published by University of California Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hellfire from Paradise Ranch: On the Front Lines of Drone Warfare
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520329740
• ISBN 13: 9780520329744
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Weight: 21 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Societal Issues

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Synopsis

In this intimate and innovative work, terror expert Joseba Zulaika examines drone warfare as manhunting carried out via satellite. Using Creech Air Force Base near Las Vegas as his center of study, he interviews drone operators as well as resisters to the war economy of the region to expose the layers of fantasy on which counterterrorism and its self-sustaining logic are grounded. 

Hellfire from Paradise Ranch exposes the terror and warfare of drone killings that dominate our modern military. It unveils the trauma drone operators experience, in part due to their visual intimacy with their victims, and explores the resistance to drone killings in the same apocalyptic Nevada desert where nuclear testing, pacifist militancy, and Shoshone tradition overlap.

Stunning and absorbing, Zulaika offers a richly detailed account of how we continue to manufacture, deconstruct, and perpetuate terror.

About the Author

Joseba Zulaika received his licentiate in philosophy from the University of Deusto, Spain, in 1975, his M.A. in social anthropology from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, in 1977 and his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Princeton in 1982. He has taught at the University of the Basque Country, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at the University of Nevada, Reno, since 1990, where he is currently affiliated as a researcher with the Basque Studies program.