Book Review: Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America, by Inderpal Grewal

The ongoing war on terror, the election of Donald Trump to the office of US President, and the tragic Florida school shooting on 14 February 2018 provide the American backdrop to current discourses of racialized and gendered humanitarianism. These events, their attendant discourses, subjects and technologies affirm the timely significance of Inderpal Grewal’s latest book, Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America, an intervention into conceptualizations of American power and the exceptional US citizen.