The recent rescue of a US airman from Iranian soil obscures a deeper truth. As contested casualty figures emerge from America’s war, Kandida Purnell argues that what we see, count, and mourn in war is never neutral. Rather, it is carefully governed through a longstanding necropolitical logic that shapes public perception and sustains conflict
Kandida Purnell explains the significance of the transition between the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the crowning of King Charles III. There is a strange (yet strategic) legal-theological history and tradition which gives the UK's monarch two ‘bodies’. In doing so, it breathes life into the still commonly deployed metaphorical ‘body politic’
Head of Research and Professional Engagement / Associate Professor of International Relations, Richmond American University London
Kandida's research concerns the local-global politics of bodies.
She has written on the body politics of the Global War on Terror, resistance practices, mass casualty events, repatriation and commemoration processes, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
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