Making War on Bodies

Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics
Herausgeber: Baker, Catherine

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Combining perspectives on aesthetics and embodiment to understand militarism in international politics This vibrant collection of essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the military and its gendered and racialised norms. The volume synthesises three recent turns in the study of international politics: aesthetics, embodiment and the everyday, into a new conceptual framework for understanding how militarism permeates society and how far its practices can be re-appropriated or even turned against it. Through a range of case studies covering 20th- and 21st-century conflicts on four different continents, the authors of this collection provide a vital introduction to three current concepts in international politics research. Key Features: - Illustrates how processes of militarisation operate in the continuum between military institutions and everyday civilian life - Case studies range from the Middle East and post-socialist Europe to the USA, Britain, Australia and Cuba - Offers diverse methodological examples including autoethnography, visual analysis, fashion history, and digital media research - Integrates social identities including race, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability Catherine Baker is Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History at the University of Hull.

Produktdetails

• Advances in Critical Military Studies
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781474446181
• ISBN-10: 1474446183
• Artikelnr.: 58356166

Autorenporträt

Catherine Baker is a Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History and Director of the MA Provision in the School of History, Languages and Cultures at the University of Hull. She has previously published articles in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, Critical Military Studies and the European Journal of International Relations, among others. She has published monographs with Palgrave Macmillan and Ashgate.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Making War on Bodies: Militarisation
Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics
Catherine Baker; 1: Basic Training
Dan Evans; 2: The Political Aesthetics of the Body of the Soldier in Pain
Federica Caso; 3: Svetlana Alexievich's Soviet Women Veterans and the Aesthetics of the Disabled Military Body: Staring at the Unwomanly Face of War
Catherine Baker; 4: Breaking the Silence: Embodiment
Militarisation and Military Dissent in the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Sorana Jude; 5: Death Becomes Him: The Hypervisibility of Martyrdom and Invisibility of the Wounded in the Iconography of Lebanese Militarised Masculinities
Henri Myrttinen; 6: Ginger Cats and Cute Puppies: Animals
Affect
and Militarisation in the Crisis in Ukraine
Jennifer G. Mathers; 7: Embodying War
Becoming Warriors: Media
Militarisation and the Case of Islamic State's Online Propaganda
Daniel Møller Ølgaard; 8: The Defender Collection: Militarisation
Historical Mythology and the Everyday Affective Politics of Nationalist Fashion in Croatia
Catherine Baker; 9: Images of Insurgency: Reading the Cuban Revolution through Military Aesthetics and Embodiment
Jane Tynan; 10: Seize the Time!: Military Aesthetics
Symbolic Revolution and the Black Panther Party
Amy Abugo Ongiri.