Joseph Pugliese Libri

Exploring the intersection of law and state violence, this book delves into how legal frameworks facilitate practices such as torture, secret imprisonment, and remote killings. It critically analyzes the mechanisms through which law is manipulated to justify and perpetuate acts of violence by the state, shedding light on the implications for justice and human rights. Through its examination, the work challenges readers to reconsider the relationship between legal authority and the exercise of power in contemporary society.

By exploring the biopolitical concept through a nonanthropocentric perspective, Joseph Pugliese argues for the recognition of more-than-human entities as legitimate actors deserving of justice. He highlights the entanglement of these entities with human victims in conflict zones like Palestine and sites of US drone strikes, challenging human exceptionalism. Drawing on Indigenous epistemologies, Pugliese advocates for an ethico-legal framework that acknowledges ecological justice, revealing the often-overlooked impacts of human conflict on the more-than-human world.

Focusing on biometric technologies like fingerprint and facial recognition, this book critically examines their role in identity verification and authentication within various social contexts. It explores how these technologies serve as instruments of biopolitical power wielded by corporate, military, and governmental entities, influencing and controlling the human body. Through this lens, the text delves into the implications of such power dynamics on individual identity and privacy.

Focusing on the interplay between law and state violence, this book explores how legal frameworks facilitate practices such as torture, secret imprisonment, and remote killings. It delves into the mechanisms through which the law is manipulated to justify and perpetuate these acts, highlighting the complexities of legality and morality in the context of state power. The analysis offers critical insights into the implications of legal structures on human rights and the ethical responsibilities of governing bodies.

Exploring the concept of more-than-human diasporas, this book examines how non-human entities like water, trees, clay, and architectural styles contribute to cultural and environmental narratives. By breaking traditional scholarly boundaries, it offers a fresh perspective on the interconnectedness of human and non-human experiences in diaspora, highlighting the significance of these entities in shaping identities and communities.

This book offers a unique mapping of Mediterranean cultures and histories in transnational contexts. A diverse collection of diasporic scholars stage a critical examination of transmediterranean subjects across a broad spectrum of geopolitical spaces that encompasses India, Greece, Palestine, Sudan, Australia, the Netherlands, Italy and Libya. Focusing on the transnational dispersions and heterogeneous embodiments of Mediterranean cultures, this book examines how these cultures, geopolitical spaces and subjects are caught within flows of exchange, contestation and reconfiguration. Working in the interstices of global formations, the essays in this volume proceed to articulate transmediterranean affiliations that challenge the borders and limits of the nation-state.