Civil-military entanglements : anthropological perspectives / edited by Birgitte Refslund Sørensen and Eyal Ben-Ari.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sørensen, Birgitte Refslund, editor.

Ben-Ari, Eyal, 1953- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil-military relations--Case studies.

Civil-military relations.

Civil-military relations--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2019.

Summary:

Military-civilian encounters are multiple and diverse in our times. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how military and civilian domains are constituted through entanglements undermining the classic civil-military binary and manifest themselves in unexpected places and manners. Moreover, the essays trace out the ripples, reverberations and resonations of civil-military entanglements in areas not usually associated with such ties, but which are nevertheless real and significant for an understanding of the roles war, violence and the military play in shaping contemporary societies and the everyday life of its citizens.

Contents:

The invisible uniform : civil-military entanglements in the everyday life of Danish soldiers' families / Birgitte Refslund Sorensen and Maj Heiselberg

Marriage hunting and civil-military relations in Japan / Atsuko Fukuura

Capable patriots : narratives of Estonian women living with military service members / Tiia-Triin Truusa and Kairi Kasearu

Military, society, and violence through popular culture : Japan's self-defense forces / Eyal Ben-Ari

From obligatory to optional : thirty years of civil-military entanglements in Norway / Elin Gustavsen and Torunn Laugen Haaland

Framing the other in times of war and terror : explorations of the military in Germany / Maren Tomforde

Domesticating civil-military entanglement : multiplicity and transnationality of retired British Gurkhas' citizenship negotiation / Taeko Uesugi

Civil-military relations from international conflict zones to the United States : notes on mutual discontents and disruptive logics / Robert A. Rubinstein and Corri Zoli

The entangled soldier : on the messiness of war/law/morality / Thomas Randrup Pedersen

Mobility through self-defined expertise : Israeli security from the occupation to Kenya / Erella Grassiani

Explaining efficiency, seeking recognition : the experiences of the Argentine peacekeepers in Haiti / Sabina Frederic

Crossing over barbed-wire entanglements of U.S. military bases : on environmental issues around MCAS Futenma in Okinawa, Japan / Masakazu Tanaka

The entanglements of military research at home and abroad : an experience of an Israeli anthropologist / Nir Gazit

Interpretations of civil-military entanglements / Birgitte Refslund Sørensen and Eyal Ben-Ari.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78920-196-9

OCLC:

1079400929