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Marouf Hasian Jr. is professor of communication at the University of Utah and author of Representing Ebola: Culture, Law, and Public Discourse about the 2013–2015 West African Ebola Outbreak (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2016).
Acknowledgments
Chapter One — Introduction: Kafka, and the Chaotic Rhetorical Cultures of Mercenaries and
Private Military Companies
Chapter Two — Operation Iraq Freedom and the Rise of Blackwater, Inc.
Chapter Three — Creative Destruction, Iraqi Sentiments, and Early Prosecutorial Narratives of
“What Happened” at Nisour Square, 2007-2008
Chapter Four — The Demise of Blackwater and the Tales of Primate Military Corporate
“Accountability,” 2009-2013
Chapter Five — The 2014 Criminal Trials of Paul Slough, Nicholas Slatten, and the Other
Blackwater Defendants
Chapter Six — Remembrances of Blackwater and the Advent of the “New Humanitarian”
Private Contractors
Bibliography
About the Author