RT Article
T1 Toys for the boys?: drones, pleasure and popular culture in the militarisation of policing
JF Critical criminology
VO 22
IS 2
SP 163
OP 177
A1 Salter, Michael 1980-
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1849000891
AB This paper argues that the various and contradictory rationales offered for law enforcement drones are symptomatic of a ‘weapons fetish’ evident in popular culture. This fetishisation imbues military technology such as the drone with masculine fantasies of control and domination that obscure the practical limitations and ethical implications of drones for crime control and prevention. By linking the pleasures of militarism to crucial shifts in the social and economic order, the paper argues that counter-terrorism discourse functions to legitimate the militarised masculine subject positions of paramilitary policing specifically and the neoliberal state generally. In such a context, the drone features as a regressive ‘weapon-toy’ that fuses state control with technological transcendence.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 174-177
K1 Crime Control
K1 Life Cycle Cost
K1 Police Agency
K1 Unmanned Aerial System
K1 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
DO 10.1007/s10612-013-9213-4