| dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Cristiano, Fabio | |
| dc.contributor.author | Teijeiro Garcia, María | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-22T00:01:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-09-22T00:01:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/50417 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research explores how drones reproduce necropolitical practices by examining their
deployment in the contexts of Yemen during the Obama administration, and in Gaza since
2014. Drawing on Achille Mbembe’s theory of necropolitics, this thesis aims to analyse
how drones operate as instruments that enable the power of administering death beyond
traditional battlefields. This is studied through the lens of three analytical categories: the
Other, the sovereign right of death, and the living dead. Looking at a variety of sources,
from speeches and governmental documents to NGOs’ and investigative journalist
reports, this research suggests that drones are not a neutral technology, but rather serve
as contemporary tools for enabling or producing necropolitical forms of governance,
control, and violence. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
| dc.language.iso | EN | |
| dc.subject | This thesis uses the theoretical lens of necropolitics to examine the categories of Othering, the sovereign right of death and the living dead in the case studies of Yemen and Gaza. | |
| dc.title | Death from Heaven: An Analysis of Drones’ Necropolitical Practices in Yemen and Gaza | |
| dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
| dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
| dc.subject.keywords | drones; necropolitics; Yemen; Gaza; Othering; sovereignty; living dead | |
| dc.subject.courseuu | Conflict Studies and Human Rights | |
| dc.thesis.id | 54083 | |
