Militarization
Subtitle: a reader
By: Roberto J. González, Hugh Gusterson, and Gustaaf Houtman, editors ; in collaboration with Catherine Besteman, Andrew Bickford, Catherine Lutz, Katherine T. McCaffrey, Austin Miller, David H. Price, David Vine
Contributors: González, Roberto J. (Roberto Jesús), 1969- editor; Gusterson, Hugh, editor; Houtman, Gustaaf, editor
Series: Global insecurities
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9781478005469; 9781478006237
Subjects: Militarism; War; Militarization; HISTORY / Military / General
Description: "Militarization: A Reader offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental phenomenon. It portrays militarism as the condition in which military values and frameworks come to dominate state structures and public culture, both in foreign relations and the domestic sphere. Featuring short, readable essays by anthropologists, historians, political scientists, cultural theorists, and media commentators, the reader probes militarism's ideologies, including those that valorize warriors, armed conflict, and weaponry. Outlining contemporary militarization processes at work around the world, the Reader offers a wide-ranging examination of a phenomenon that touches the lives of billions of people." -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Roberto J. González and Hugh Gusterson; title: Militarization and the political economy; title: Introduction / Catherine Lutz; title: The U.S. Imperial triangle and military spending / John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman, and Robert W. McChesney; title: Farewell address to the Nation, January 17 / Dwight D. Eisenhower; title: The militarization of sports and the redefinition of patriotism / William Astore; title: Violence, just in time: war and work in contemporary West Africa / Daniel Hoffman; title: Women, economy, war / Carolyn Nordstrom; title: Military labor; title: Introduction / Andrew Bickford; title: Soldiering as work: the all-volunteer force in the United States / Beth Bailey; title: Sexing the globe / Sealing Cheng; title: Military monks / Michael Jerryson; title: Child soldiers after war / Brandon Kohrt and Robert Koenig; title: Asian labor in the wartime Japanese empire: unknown histories / Paul H. Kratoska; title: Corporate warriors: the rise of the privatized military industry / P. W. Singer; title: Gender and militarism; title: Introduction / Katherine T. McCaffrey; title: Gender in transition: common sense, women, and war / Kimberly Theidon; title: The compassionate warrior: wartime sacrifice / Jean Bethke Elshtain; title: Creating citizens, making men: the military and masculinity in Bolivia / Lesley Gill; title: One of the guys: military women, paradoxical individuality, and the transformations of the Argentine army / Máximo Badaró; title: The emotional life of militarism; title: Militarization and the madness of everyday life / Nancy Scheper-Hughes; title: Fear as a way of life / Linda Green; title: Evil, the self, and survival / Robert Jay Lifton (interviewed by Harry Kreisler); title: Target audience: the emotional impact of U.S. government films on nuclear testing / Joseph Masco; title: Rhetorics of militarism; title: The militarization of cherry blossoms / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney; title: The 'old west' in the Middle East: U.S. military metaphors in real and imagined Indian country / Stephen W. Silliman; title: Ideology, culture and the Cold War / Naoko Shibusawa; title: The military normal: feeling at home with counterinsurgency in the United States / Catherine Lutz; title: Nuclear Orientalism / Hugh Gusterson; title: Militarization, place, and territory; title: Introduction / Roberto J. González; title: Making war at home / Catherine Lutz; title: Spillover: the U.S. military's sociospatial impact / Mark L. Gillem; title: Nuclear landscapes: the Marshall islands' radioactive legacy / Barbara Rose Johnston; title: The war on terror, dismantling, and the construction of place: an ethnographic perspective from Palestine / Julie Peteet; title: The border wall is a metaphor / Jason De León (interviewed by Micheline Aharonian Marcom); title: Militarized humanitarianism; title: Introduction / Catherine Besteman; title: Laboratory of intervention / Mariella Pandolfi; title: Armed for humanity / Michael Barnett; title: The passions of protection: sovereign authority and humanitarian war / Anne Orford; title: Responsibility to protect or right to punish? / Mahmood Mamdani; title: Utopias of power: from human security to the responsibility to protect / Chowra Makaremi; title: Militarism and the media; title: Introduction / Hugh Gusterson; title: Pentagon pundits / David Barstow (interviewed by Amy Goodman); title: Operation Hollywood / David Robb (interviewed by Jeff Fleischer); title: Discipline and publish / Mark Pedelty; title: The Enola Gay on display / John Whittier Treat; title: War porn: Hollywood and war, from World War II to American sniper / Peter Van Buren; title: Militarizing knowledge; title: Introduction / David H. Price; title: Boundary displacement: the state, the foundations, and international and area studies during and after the Cold War / Bruce Cumings; title: The career of Cold War psychology / Ellen Herman; title: Scientific colonialism / Johan Galtung; title: Research in foreign areas / Ralph L. Beals; title: Rethinking the promise of critical education / Henry Giroux (interviewed by Chronis Polychroniou); title: Militarization and the body; title: Nuclear war, the Gulf war, and the disappearing body / Hugh Gusterson; title: The structure of war: the juxtaposition of injured bodies and unanchored issues / Elaine Scarry; title: The enhanced warfighter / Kenneth Ford and Clark Glymour; title: Suffering child: an embodiment of war and its aftermath in post-Sandinista Nicaragua / James Quesada; title: Militarism and technology; title: Giving up the gun: Japan's reversion to the sword, 1543-1879 / Noel Perrin; title: Life underground: building the American Bunker Society / Joseph Masco; title: Militarizing space / David H. Price; title: Embodiment and affect in a digital age: understanding mental illness among military drone personnel / Alex Edney-Browne; title: Land mines and cluster bombs: 'weapons of mass destruction in slow motion' / H. Patricia Hynes; title: Pledge of non-participation / Lisbeth Gronlund and David Wright; title: The scientists' call for a ban on autonomous weapons / International Committee for Robot Arms Control; title: Alternatives to militarization; title: Introduction / David Vine; title: War is only an invention, not a biological necessity / Margaret Mead; title: Reflections on the possibility of a nonkilling society and a nonkilling anthropology / Leslie E. Sponsel; title: U.S. bases, empire, and global response / Catherine Lutz; title: Down here / Julian Aguon; title: War, culture, and counterinsurgency / Roberto J. González, Hugh Gusterson, and David H. Price; title: Hope in the dark: untold histories, wild possibilities / Rebecca Solnit.