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Articles | Volume 71, issue 1
Articles | Volume 71, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-71-19-2016
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15 Feb 2016
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The Urbanization of drone warfare: policing surplus populations in the dronepolis

Ian G. R. Shaw

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This paper explores the urbanization of drone warfare and the targeting of the surplus population. Increasingly, the security threats generated by replacing masses of workers with nonhumans is managed by policing them with robots, drones, and other technical apparatuses. This paper looks at the theoretical implications of using police drones across a post-9/11 battlespace in the cities in Europe and North America. It contends we are witnessing the rise of the dronepolis, the city of the drone.
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Power and space in the drone age