The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes: New border politics?

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Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-195

  Vaughan Williams, Nick ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Borders; London bombings; Menezes; Sovereign power; War on terror

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EID: 34547359721     PISSN: 03043754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030437540703200202     Document Type: Review

References (111)

1. Dagmar Almeida, in A. Bland, "It's War on the memorial to de Menezes," The Guardian, 28 November 2005;
2. Sir Ian Blair, quoted in "UK Police Defend Shoot-to-Kill After Mistake," NBC News, 24 July 2005.
3. "London Attacks in Depth: the Menezes Killing," BBC News, http:// news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/london_blasts/ tube_shooting/ html/default.stm;
4. "De Menezes 'Shot 11 Times During 30 Seconds'," Daily Telegraph, 26 August 2005.
5. Ibid.
6. "Man Shot Dead by Police on Tube," BBC News, 22 July 2005, http://news.bbc.co.Uk/1/hi/uk/4706787.stm
7. Sir Ian Blair, quoted in "UK Police Defend Shoot-to-Kill after Mistake," note 1.
8. Sir Ian Blair, quoted in "Met Chief Admits Serious Mistake over De Menezes," The Daily Telegraph, 31 January 2006 (emphasis mine).
9. Jacques Derrida, "Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides - A Dialogue with Jacques Derrida," in G. Borradori, ed., Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), p. 89.
10. D. Campbell, "Imagining the Real: Struggling for Meaning," InfoInterventions, 6 October 2001;
11. Nick Vaughan-Williams, "International Relations and the 'Problem of History'," Millennium: Journal of International Studies 34, no. 1 (August 2005): 115-136.
12. Jacques Derrida, "The Parergon," October 9, no. 3 (1979): 3-40;
13. Derrida, Positions, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987);
14. Derrida, Limited Inc. (Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1988);
15. and Derrida, "The Deconstruction of Actuality: An Interview with Jacques Derrida," Radical Philosophy 68 (1994): 28-30.
16. "London Attacks in Depth: The Menezes Killing," BBC News Online (accessed 20/11/06);
17. "Will Police Now Shoot-to-Kill?" BBC News Online, 22 July 2005;
18. "UK Police Defend Shoot-to-Kill After Mistake," note 1; J. Appleton, "Memorial to Paranoia: Conspiracy Theorists and Opportunists Gather at the Shrine to Jean Charles de Menezes in Stockwell," Spiked Online, 24 August 2005;
19. Black, 7-7 The London Bombs - What Went Wrong? (London: Gibson Square Books, 2005), p. 53;
20. J. Davenport, "Met Chief Admits Menezes Mistakes," Evening Standard, 30 January 2006;
21. "Met Chief Admits Serious Mistake over Menezes," Daily Telegraph, 31 January 2006;
22. P. Taylor "The Death of Jean Charles de Menezes: The Terrorist Who Wasn't," The Guardian, 8 March 2006.
23. Ibid., Appleton, "Memorial to paranoia."
24. http://www.justice4jean.com/about_campaign_news.html
25. N. Ahmed, The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry (London: Duckworth, 2006), p. 97.
26. "The Menezes Killing: BBC News In Depth."
27. Ahmed, note 13, p. 118;
28. BBC Panorama, "Stockwell: Countdown to Killing";
29. J. Cusick, "A Cover Up? And If So. . . Why?" Sunday Herald, 21 August 2005,
30. "The Menezes Killing: BBC News in Depth."
31. J. Pugliese, "Asymmetries of Terror: Visual Regimes of Racial Profiling and the Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in the Context of the War in Iraq," borderlands ejournal, 5, no. 1 (2006).
32. Ibid, p. 3.
33. Ahmed, note 13, pp. 97-100; BBC Panorama, "Stockwell: Countdown to the Killing."
34. P. Taylor, "Special Report: the Death of Jean Charles de Menezes," The Guardian, 8 March 2006.
35. Ibid. See also BBC Panorama, "Stockwell: Countdown to the Killing," note 15.
36. N. Ahmed, The London Bombings, pp. 97-100;
37. J. Pugliese "Asymmetries of Terror," p. 1; BBC London Attacks in Depth: The Menezes Killing.
38. Ahmed, note 22.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. M. Whitby, "I Saw Tube Man Shot - Eyewitness," BBC News, 22 July 2005, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4706913.stm
42. BBC London Attacks in Depth: The Menezes Killing.
43. Ibid.
44. Whitby, note 26.
45. "Weather in London, UK, on 22 July 2005," http://www.weather underground.com
46. Pugliese, note 17, p. 1.
47. Ibid.
48. Ahmed, note 13, p. 119.
49. CPS Statement, "Charging Decision on the Fatal Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes," 17 July 2006, http://www.cps.gov.uk/news/press releases/146_06.html
50. Ibid.
51. http://www.justice4jean.com
52. Ibid.
53. Jonathan Freedland, "How London Carried On," G2, The Guardian, 7 July 2006, p. 9.
54. Ibid.
55. "Will Police Now Shoot to Kill?" BBC News, 22 July 2005.
56. Ibid.
57. "Shoot to Kill Is State Murder," Socialist Worker, 30 July 2005.
58. "Protest in Brazil After Shooting," BBC News, 26 July 2005.
59. "Jean Charles de Menezes: In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time," The Independent, 25 July 2007.
60. Derrida, "Autoimmunity," note 7.
61. Taylor, note 20.
62. Quoted in Ibid.
63. Quoted in Ibid.
64. Quoted in Ibid.
65. BBC News, note 40,
66. Jacques Derrida, Rogues: Two Essays on Reason, trans. P. Brault and M. Naas (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005), p. 13.
67. Taylor, note 20.
68. "Police May Receive Shoot to Kill Orders," The Scotsman, 15 July 2005.
69. Ahmed, note 13, pp. 117-118.
70. On 30 April 2005, eleven weeks before the Menezes shooting, another man named Azelle Rodney was shot dead by police in central London. However, unlike the Menezes shooting, the Rodney case has received little attention in the press and there are few details available in the public domain. See "He Was Shot Six Times: Why?" The Guardian, 7 December 2006.
71. "'Someone Else Could Be Shot' British Police Chief Warns," CBC News, 24 July 2005.
72. Ibid.
73. Ibid., emphasis mine.
74. Derrida, Rogues, note 51, p. 40.
75. Ibid., p. 40.
76. Derrida, "Autoimmunity," note 7.
77. Ibid., p. 94.
78. Ibid., p. 99.
79. Derrida, Rogues, note 51, p. 40.
80. Ahmed, note 13, p. 120.
81. Quoted in Taylor, note 20.
82. "Jean Charles de Menezes: In the Wrong Place, At the Wrong Time," The Independent, 25 July 2005.
83. Ibid.
84. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998).
85. Derrida, Rogues, note 51, p. 13.
86. Brian Massumi, "The Future Birth of the Affective Fact," proceedings of the "Genealogies of Biopolitics" conference, pp. 5-7.
87. Ibid., p. 6.
88. Ibid., p. 5.
89. Quoted in ibid., p. 5.
90. Ibid., p. 5.
91. Ibid., pp. 4-5.
92. Ibid., pp. 6-10.
93. Ibid., p. 6.
94. Ibid., pp. 7-8.
95. Ibid., pp. 8-9.
96. Sir Ian Blair quoted in "UK Police Defend Shoot to Kill After Mistake," NBC News, 24 July 2005.
97. Didier Bigo, "Protection: Security, Territory, Population," in Jef Huysmans, Andrew Dobson, and Raia Prokhovnik, eds., The Politics of Protection: Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency (New York: Routledge, 2006).
98. Pugliese, note 17, p. 6.
99. The London Assembly, Report of the 7 July Review Committee (London: Greater London Authority, 2006), p. 48.
100. Ibid., p. 48.
101. Ibid. (See section 3.12.)
102. William Walters, "Rethinking Borders Beyond the State," Contemporary European Politics 4 (2006), Special Issue: "Re-thinking European Spaces: Territory, Borders, Governance," p. 30.
103. Agamben, note 69, p. 187.
104. Giorgio Agamben, Means Without End: Notes on Politics, trans. V. Binetti and C. Casarino (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), p. 41.
105. Ibid., p. 40.
106. Ibid., p. 39.
107. Ibid., pp. 40-41.
108. Ibid., p. 45.
109. N. Vaughan-Williams, "The Generalised Border: Re-Conceptualising the Limits of Sovereign Power," paper presented at the Annual ISA Convention, 28 February-3 March 2007, Chicago.
110. Agamben, note 69, p. 111.
111. Sir Ian Blair quoted in "UK Police Defend Shoot to Kill After Mistake," NBC News, 24 July 2005.