Chemical bodies : the techno-politics of control /

In warfare, civil unrest and political protest, chemicals have served as means of coercion, suppression and manipulation. This book examines how chemical agents have been justified, utilized and resisted as means of control.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Mankoo, Alex, 1990- (Editor), Rappert, Brian
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2018]
Series:	Geopolitical bodies, material worlds.
Subjects:	Chemical weapons > History. Chemical weapons > Moral and ethical aspects. Tear gas > History. Military art and science > Philosophy. Social control > Philosophy.

Table of Contents:

Transgressive chemicals / Brian Rappert and Alex Mankoo
From reviled poisons to state arsenals: the un(necessary) proliferation of chemical weapons / Jeanne Guillemin
Lesser appreciations: a history of inter-war chemical warfare / James Revill & Marcos Favero
Biological warfare, chemical warfare and the public body / Etienne Aucouturier
Opening spaces through exhibiting absences: representing secretive pasts / Brian Rappert, Kathryn Smith, and Chandré Gould
Tear gas epistemology: the Himsworth Committee and weapons as drugs / Brian Balmer, Alex Spelling, Caitriona McLeish
What counts as a chemical weapon?: The category of law enforcement in the Chemical Weapons Convention / Michael Crowley
Tear gas and colonial bodies in the British interwar period / Anna Feigenbaum
Controlling and caring for public bodies: civil defence gas tests in WWII Britain / Alex Mankoo
"Chemical bodies" and the future of control / Alex Mankoo and Brian Rappert.