Islamic State, Biopolitics and Media Governmentality
This book analyses the Islamic State’s (IS) media and governance strategy from a critical media and cultural studies perspective.
It deploys Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblage and Foucault’s theories of dispositif (dispositive, apparatus) and biopower to understand the ways in which IS governed its subjects during the tenure of its so-called ‘caliphate’. This theoretical triangulation is ...
This book analyses the Islamic State’s (IS) media and governance strategy from a critical media and cultural studies perspective.
It deploys Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblage and Foucault’s theories of dispositif (dispositive, apparatus) and biopower to understand the ways in which IS governed its subjects during the tenure of its so-called ‘caliphate’. This theoretical triangulation is ...
