War, identity and the liberal state : everyday experiences of the geopolitical in the armed forces / Victoria M. Basham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basham, Victoria, author.

Series:

Interventions series.

Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Army--Military life.

Great Britain.

Sociology, Military--Great Britain.

Sociology, Military.

Soldiers--Great Britain--Attitudes.

Soldiers.

Women soldiers--Great Britain--Social conditions.

Women soldiers.

Sex role--Great Britain.

Sex role.

Masculinity--Great Britain.

Masculinity.

Geopolitics.

Great Britain--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 208 p.) : ill., photographs.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book critically examines the significance of gender, race and sexuality to wars waged by liberal states. Drawing on original field-research with British soldiers, it offers insights into how their everyday experiences are shaped by, and shape, a politics of gender, race and sexuality that not only underpins power relations in the military, but the geopolitics of wars waged by liberal states. Linking the politics of daily life to the international is an intervention into international relations (IR) and security studies because instead of overlooking the politics of the everyday, this book insists that it is vital to explore how geopolitical events and practices are co-constituted, reinforced and contested by it. By utilising insights from Michel Foucault, the book explores how shared and collectively mediated knowledge on gender, race and sexuality facilitates certain claims about the nature of governing in liberal states and about why and how such states wage war against 'illiberal' ones in pursuit of global peace and security. The book also develops post-structural work in international relations by urging scholars interested in the linguistic construction of geopolitics to consider the ways in which bodies, objects and architectures also reinforce particular ideas about war, identity and statehood.

Contents:

1. Materialising identity and the British warfare state

2. Intimacies of war and gender : the politics of women's bodies in war

3. Forbidden intimacies : rethinking military masculinities through heteronormativity and desire

4. Imperial encounters and the structural privileging of whiteness.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 08, 2013).

ISBN:

1-138-71287-6

0-203-75832-3

1-135-01681-X

1-135-01682-8

9780203758328

OCLC:

854763087