Making war on bodies : militarisation, aesthetics and embodiment 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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Advances in critical military studies.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
