War and the Body (eBook, ePUB)

Militarisation, Practice and Experience
Redaktion: McSorley, Kevin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume book places the body at the centre of critical thinking about war and its consequences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136173547
• Artikelnr.: 47893593

Autorenporträt

Kevin McSorley is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Portsmouth.

Inhaltsangabe

1. War and the Body
Kevin McSorley Part I: Militarizing Bodies 2. Preparing and Resisting the War Body: Training in the British Army
Emma Reilly 3. Steeling the Body for War in Austrofascist Education
Tamara Ehs 4. Too fat to fight? Obesity
Bio-Politics and the Militarization of Children's Bodies
Joseph Burridge and Kevin McSorley 5. Military Chic: Fashioning Civilian Bodies for War
Jane Tynan Part II: Embodying War 6. On patrol: The Embodied Phenomenology of Infantry
John Hockey 7. 'Switching On' for Cash: The Private Militarized Security Contractor as Geo-Corporeal Actor
Paul Higate 8. Affect
Agency and Responsibility: The Act of Killing in the Age of Cyborgs
John Protevi 9. Grammars of Violence
Modes of Embodiment and Frontiers of the Subject
Kevin McDonald 10. Soldiers' Bodies and the Contemporary British Military Memoir
Rachel Woodward and Neil Jenkings Part III: Corporeal Aftermaths 11. "An unbroken Man Despite Losing an Arm": Corporeal Reconstruction and Embodied Difference - Prosthetics in Western Germany after World War II
Elsbeth Bösl 12. War-Wounds: Disability
Memory and Narratives of War in a Lebanese Disability Rehabilitation Hospital
Julie Hartley 13. Memorializing the Veteran Body: New Zealand Nuclear Test Veterans and the Search for Military Citizenship
Catherine Trundle 14. The War Dead and the Body Politic: Rendering the Dead Soldier's Body in the New Global (dis)Order
Michael Drake 15. Bodies
Masculinities and Complex Inheritances
Victor Seidler 16. Conclusion: Rethinking War and the Body
Kevin McSorley