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Vulnerable Frames of War? Counter-Hegemonic and Cosmopolitan Criticisms of Contemporary Postcolonial Wars

International Relations
Representation
Political Sociology
Identity
Post-Modernism
War
Eric Macé
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Eric Macé
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Abstract

As emphasized by Judith Butler, the frames of war allow and justify the military action, but they make blindness on their own framing and on what is out of the frame - especially the suffering and the humanity of the victims of those hegemonic frames. This counter-hegemonic criticism against the frames of war certainly contribute to destabilize those frames, but it may appear limited because its main figure is the figure of victim and because it contest only the legitimacy of the war. Therefore it seems that another type of criticism can go further in demonstrating the vulnerability of hegemonic frames of war: the cosmopolitan criticism, inspired by Ulrich Beck, whose main figure is the figure of the adversary and his own frames of war, and whose the main target of the critic is the efficiency of the hegemonic frame of war.