Military Waste : The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness / Joshua O. Reno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reno, Joshua O., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military supplies--Environmental aspects.

Military supplies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

World War III has yet to happen, and yet material evidence of this conflict is strewn everywhere: resting at the bottom of the ocean, rusting in deserts, and floating in near-Earth orbit.In Military Waste, Joshua O. Reno offers a unique analysis of the costs of American war preparation through an examination of the lives and stories of American civilians confronted with what is left over and cast aside when a society is permanently ready for war. Using ethnographic and archival research, Reno demonstrates how obsolete military junk in its various incarnations affects people and places far from the battlegrounds that are ordinarily associated with warfare. Using a broad swath of examples—from excess planes, ships, and space debris that fall into civilian hands, to the dispossessed and polluted island territories once occupied by military bases, to the militarized masculinities of mass shooters—Military Waste reveals the unexpected and open-ended relationships that non-combatants on the home front form with a nation permanently ready for war.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Worth the Waste

2. Flight or Fight

3. Sunk Cost

4. The Wrong Stuff

5. Domestic Blowback

6. Island Erasure

Conclusion

Notes

Reference List

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780520974128

0520974123

OCLC:

1157304206