Militarization : a reader /
"Militarization: A Reader offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental phenomenon. It portrays militarism as the condition in which military values and frameworks come to dominate state structures and pub...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Global insecurities.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Roberto J. González and Hugh Gusterson
- Militarization and the political economy
- Introduction / Catherine Lutz
- The U.S. Imperial triangle and military spending / John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman, and Robert W. McChesney
- Farewell address to the Nation, January 17 / Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The militarization of sports and the redefinition of patriotism / William Astore
- Violence, just in time: war and work in contemporary West Africa / Daniel Hoffman
- Women, economy, war / Carolyn Nordstrom
- Military labor
- Introduction / Andrew Bickford
- Soldiering as work: the all-volunteer force in the United States / Beth Bailey
- Sexing the globe / Sealing Cheng
- Military monks / Michael Jerryson
- Child soldiers after war / Brandon Kohrt and Robert Koenig
- Asian labor in the wartime Japanese empire: unknown histories / Paul H. Kratoska
- Corporate warriors: the rise of the privatized military industry / P.W. Singer
- Gender and militarism
- Introduction / Katherine T. McCaffrey
- Gender in transition: common sense, women, and war / Kimberly Theidon
- The compassionate warrior: wartime sacrifice / Jean Bethke Elshtain
- Creating citizens, making men: the military and masculinity in Bolivia / Lesley Gill
- One of the guys: military women, paradoxical individuality, and the transformations of the Argentine army / Máximo Badaró
- The emotional life of militarism
- Introduction / Catherine Lutz
- Militarization and the madness of everyday life / Nancy Scheper-Hughes
- Fear as a way of life / Linda Green
- Evil, the self, and survival / Robert Jay Lifton (interviewed by Harry Kreisler)
- Target audience: the emotional impact of U.S. government films on nuclear testing / Joseph Masco
- Rhetorics of militarism
- Introduction / Andrew Bickford
- The militarization of cherry blossoms / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
- The 'old west' in the Middle East: U.S. military metaphors in real and imagined Indian country / Stephen W. Silliman
- Ideology, culture and the Cold War / Naoko Shibusawa
- The military normal: feeling at home with counterinsurgency in the United States / Catherine Lutz
- Nuclear Orientalism / Hugh Gusterson
- Militarization, place, and territory
- Introduction / Roberto J. González
- Making war at home / Catherine Lutz
- Spillover: the U.S. military's sociospatial impact / Mark L. Gillem
- Nuclear landscapes: the Marshall islands' radioactive legacy / Barbara Rose Johnston
- The war on terror, dismantling, and the construction of place: an ethnographic perspective from Palestine / Julie Peteet
- The border wall is a metaphor / Jason De León (interviewed by Micheline Aharonian Marcom)
- Militarized humanitarianism
- Introduction / Catherine Besteman
- Laboratory of intervention / Mariella Pandolfi
- Armed for humanity / Michael Barnett
- The passions of protection: sovereign authority and humanitarian war / Anne Orford
- Responsibility to protect or right to punish? / Mahmood Mamdani
- Utopias of power: from human security to the responsibility to protect / Chowra Makaremi
- Militarism and the media
- Introduction / Hugh Gusterson
- Pentagon pundits / David Barstow (interviewed by Amy Goodman)
- Operation Hollywood / David Robb (interviewed by Jeff Fleischer)
- Discipline and publish / Mark Pedelty
- The Enola Gay on display / John Whittier Treat
- War porn: Hollywood and war, from World War II to American sniper / Peter Van Buren
- Militarizing knowledge
- Introduction / David H. Price
- Boundary displacement: the state, the foundations, and international and area studies during and after the Cold War / Bruce Cumings
- The career of Cold War psychology / Ellen Herman
- Scientific colonialism / Johan Galtung
- Research in foreign areas / Ralph L. Beals
- Rethinking the promise of critical education / Henry Giroux (interviewed by Chronis Polychroniou)
- Militarization and the body
- Introduction / Roberto J. González
- Nuclear war, the Gulf war, and the disappearing body / Hugh Gusterson
- The structure of war: the juxtaposition of injured bodies and unanchored issues / Elaine Scarry
- The enhanced warfighter / Kenneth Ford and Clark Glymour
- Suffering child: an embodiment of war and its aftermath in post-Sandinista Nicaragua / James Quesada
- Militarism and technology
- Introduction / Hugh Gusterson
- Giving up the gun: Japan's reversion to the sword, 1543-1879 / Noel Perrin
- Life underground: building the American Bunker Society / Joseph Masco
- Militarizing space / David H. Price
- Embodiment and affect in a digital age: understanding mental illness among military drone personnel / Alex Edney-Browne
- Land mines and cluster bombs: 'weapons of mass destruction in slow motion' / H. Patricia Hynes
- Pledge of non-participation / Lisbeth Gronlund and David Wright
- The scientists' call for a ban on autonomous weapons / International Committee for Robot Arms Control
- Alternatives to militarization
- Introduction / David Vine
- War is only an invention, not a biological necessity / Margaret Mead
- Reflections on the possibility of a nonkilling society and a nonkilling anthropology / Leslie E. Sponsel
- U.S. bases, empire, and global response / Catherine Lutz
- Down here / Julian Aguon
- War, culture, and counterinsurgency / Roberto J. González, Hugh Gusterson, and David H. Price
- Hope in the dark: untold histories, wild possibilities / Rebecca Solnit.
