Forensic Rhetorics and Satellite Surveillance

The Visualization of War Crimes and Human Rights Violations

By (author) Marouf Hasian Jr.

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Publication date:

25 July 2016

Length of book:

288 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498535915

Forensic Rhetorics and Satellite Surveillance: The Visualization of War Crimes and Human Rights Violations uses cases studies of satellite surveillance over the skies of Darfur, Gaza, Bosnia, Pakistan, and the Mediterranean to provide readers with an overview of some of the technological, analytic, and political complexities of satellite surveillance imagery usage. Marouf Hasian, Jr. illustrates how our earlier reliance on witness testimony or signal communications in human rights contexts is now being supplemented with forensic evidence from satellites that can be used to document, monitor, and perhaps even deter human rights violations on the ground.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Illustrations

Chapter 1: Satellite Imaging, Humanitarian Dreams, and the 21^st Century Pursuit of Forensic Truths

Chapter 2: Visualizing Srebrenica, The International Criminal Tribunal For the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the Growing Acceptance of Satellite Evidence

Chapter 3: Satellite Imagery and the Visual/Virtual Israeli Occupation of the Gaza

Chapter 4: George Clooney, Surveillance of Sudanese Borders, and the Sentinel Project

Chapter 5: The Drone Wars Over Pakistan and the Aerial “Manhunts” for Taliban and Al Qaeda Enemies

Chapter 6: EUROSUR Surveillance, Mediterranean “Search and Rescue,” and the Visualization of Europe’s “Migrant Crisis”

Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Constitutive Power of Satellite Surveillance and the Crafting of Securitized and Militarized Dispositifs

Bibliography

Index

Professor Hasian's brilliantly delivered discussion of imaging intelligence and surveillance rhetorics demonstrates a frightening shift in public disputation, thresholds and uses of evidence, and public discourse itself; a shift that privileges the ocular power of satellite surveillance as if such imagery exerts only truth free from evaluation, dissent, discussion, and criticism. This book is a must-read for anyone concerned with the sanctity of public discourse as well as rhetorical, argumentation, and critical scholars.