The Airspace Tribunal: Towards a New Human Right to Live Without Physical or Psychological Threat From Above

“The Airspace Tribunal: Towards a New Human Right to Live Without Physical or Psychological Threat From Above” outlines the legal, political, social, and psychological case for a proposed human right that will protect individuals and communities from aerial bombardment.

Focusing on visual methodologies and first-hand accounts, the contributors included Zeinab Mir, Majid Rabet, Safdar Ahmed, Baraa Shiban, Adel Al Manthari, Omar Mohammed, Fadel Abdulghany and Abrar Mechmechia, all of whom have had lived experience of aerial bombardment in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria and Yemen. Their testimonies, alongside contextualising texts by experts in visual culture (Illingworth, Downey, Schwab, Sealy, Albano), international human rights law (Gearty KC, Brimelow KC, Salecl, Bales, Ramuš Cvetkovič, Escobar), global security (Merrin & Hoskins, Grief, Oduntan, Weber, Freeland, Chatterjee, Schueller), drone technologies (Antrobus, Ling, Lee, Mackay), and trauma studies (Loveday, Mechmechia, Mir, Mohammed).