Militarization : a reader / Roberto J. González, Hugh Gusterson, and Gustaaf Houtman, editors ; in collaboration with Catherine Besteman, Andrew Bickford, Catherine Lutz, Katherine T. McCaffrey, Austin Miller, David H. Price, David Vine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

González, Roberto J. (Roberto Jesús), 1969- editor.

Gusterson, Hugh, editor.

Houtman, Gustaaf, editor.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Global insecurities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Militarization.

Militarism.

War.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

"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 public culture, both in foreign relations and the domestic sphere. Featuring short, readable essays by anthropologists, historians, political scientists, cultural theorists, and media commentators, the reader probes militarism's ideologies, including those that valorize warriors, armed conflict, and weaponry. Outlining contemporary militarization processes at work around the world, the Reader offers a wide-ranging examination of a phenomenon that touches the lives of billions of people." -- Provided by publisher.

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

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

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

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

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Militarization.

ISBN:

9781478007135

1478007133

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