The Good Drone

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Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction | What does it take to be good?
	The good drone: “newness,” technological optimism, and technological fantasies
	Conceptualizing the good drone
	Making sense of the good drone: an analytical framework
		The terrain of the good drone
		Attributes, capabilities, and functions
		What is “good”?
		The “bad” drone
		Shifting discourses: the definition dogfight and public airspace as a common good
	Chapter previews
	Notes
	References
1 | Targeted “killer drones” and the humanitarian discourse: On a liaison
	Introduction: the promise of precision and the problem of reasonable use of force
	The drone as an active player in the political game of securitization
	Complex systems as actors and objects of threats
	Targeting: the logic of precision and expansion
	Targeted killing and its law
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
2 | Lifting the fog of war?: Opportunities and challenges of drones in UN peace operations
	Introduction
	Surveillance drones in UN peacekeeping operations
		MONUSCO
		MINUSMA
	Opportunities and challenges of including surveillance drones in UN peacekeeping
		Helpful tool or band-aid for a political problem?
		UN surveillance drones and the Force Intervention Brigade
		Member state divisions on UN peacekeeping
		UN drones and humanitarian actors
		Managing the data
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
3 | Poison pill or cure-all?: Drones and the protection of civilians
	Introduction
	The protection of civilians
	Combatant PoC
		Intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and target selection
		Targeting civilians, targeting for civilians?
	Peacekeeping PoC
		Surveillance, reconnaissance, documentation and deterrence
		Monitoring without peacekeeping
		Targeting in peace enforcement missions
	Humanitarian PoC
		Crisis mapping and cargo
		The potential for transfer to conflict settings
		Targeting in humanitarian interventions
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
4 | Creating the EU drone: Control, sorting, and search and rescue at sea
	Introduction
	The political rationales behind the increasingly technologized border surveillance
	Sorting, control and order
	The “search and rescue drone”: inherently good or a cover for more control?
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
5 | The public order drone: Proliferation and disorder in civil airspace
	Unlocking access to civil airspace
	Paramilitary policing and technology transfer
	The evolution of public order policing: from surveillance to weaponization
	The new drone antisociality: unsafe, untrained, and irresponsible users
	The endless possibilities for future insecurity
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6 | A revolution in agricultural affairs: Dronoculture, precision, capital
	Introduction
	The new drones
	From the battlefield to the cornfield: drone normalization
	Farming precision
	Unmanned land grabs
	Conclusion: drone on the range
	Notes
	References
7 | Wings for wildlife: The use of conservation drones: challenges and opportunities
	Introduction
	The conservation drone explained
		Building a conservation drone: methodology and challenges
	The drone as a solution to the limitations of existing conservation techniques
	How conservation drones have already been used
		Wildlife monitoring
		Habitat monitoring
		Anti-poaching
	Problematic issues
		Privacy concerns
		Local participation
		Data and control hacking
		Using drone data on illegal activities
	Conclusion
	References
	Websites
8 | Drone/.body: The drone’s power to sense and construct emergencies
	Introduction
	The “sensing drone” in emergency management
		An inventory of the “five sensors”
		The sensibilities of sensing
	The power of the sensing drone: from destruction to construction
		Sensing and un-sensing: the role of the sensor for processes of construction
		Constructing emergencies
		Constructing regulatory discourses
		Constructing reasoning
		Constructing bodies
	Conclusion: the drone and the body – a sensitive relationship
	Notes
	References
	Websites
Index