Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

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Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? is a philosophical work by Judith Butler that examines how media and political frameworks shape whose lives are recognized as valuable and mournable in contexts of war and violence.

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instanceOf book
addressesEvent Afghanistan War (post-2001) NERFINISHED
Iraq War NERFINISHED
War on Terror NERFINISHED
author Judith Butler NERFINISHED
centralConcept dehumanization
differential distribution of vulnerability
ethics of mourning
frame
grievability
livable life
media framing
normative violence
precarity
ungrievable life
visual representation of war
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
follows Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence NERFINISHED
genre critical theory
philosophy
political philosophy
hasAuthor Judith Butler NERFINISHED
hasPart “Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?” (essay) NERFINISHED
“Non-Thinking in the Name of the Normative” NERFINISHED
“Sexual Politics, Torture, and Secular Time” NERFINISHED
“Survivability, Vulnerability, Affect” NERFINISHED
“Torture and the Ethics of Photography” NERFINISHED
influencedBy Emmanuel Levinas NERFINISHED
Hannah Arendt NERFINISHED
Michel Foucault NERFINISHED
Theodor W. Adorno NERFINISHED
psychoanalysis
language English
mainSubject biopolitics
ethics of war
frames of representation
grievability of life
human rights discourse
media
precarious life
violence
war
publisher Verso Books NERFINISHED
questionAddressed How do media and political frames shape public affect in wartime?
When and for whom is life considered grievable?
Whose lives are recognized as lives?
theoreticalApproach critical media studies
feminist theory
post-structuralism
queer theory

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Judith Butler notableWork Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
Judith Butler hasPublicationYearForWork Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
this entity surface form: Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009)