Making War on Bodies
Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics
Published on 12. March 2020
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-4744-4618-1 (ISBN)
Description
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. It synthesises three recent turns in the study of international politics: aesthetics, embodiment and the everyday, into a new conceptual framework. This helps us to understand how militarism permeates society and how far its practices can be re-appropriated or even turned against it.
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From martyrs' posters to revolutionary fashion, animal memes to jihadi videos, this brilliantly insightful and interdisciplinary volume sheds new light upon the affective circuits and the intimate politics of military power. * Kevin McSorley, University of Portsmouth *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-4618-1 (9781474446181)
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Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics
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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.
Content
Introduction: Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International PoliticsCatherine Baker
1: Basic TrainingDan Evans
2: The Political Aesthetics of the Body of the Soldier in PainFederica Caso
3: Svetlana Alexievich's Soviet Women Veterans and the Aesthetics of the Disabled Military Body: Staring at the Unwomanly Face of WarCatherine Baker
4: Breaking the Silence: Embodiment, Militarisation and Military Dissent in the Israel/Palestine ConflictSorana Jude
5: Death Becomes Him: The Hypervisibility of Martyrdom and Invisibility of the Wounded in the Iconography of Lebanese Militarised MasculinitiesHenri Myrttinen
6: Ginger Cats and Cute Puppies: Animals, Affect, and Militarisation in the Crisis in UkraineJennifer G. Mathers
7: Embodying War, Becoming Warriors: Media, Militarisation and the Case of Islamic State's Online PropagandaDaniel Moller Olgaard
8: The Defender Collection: Militarisation, Historical Mythology and the Everyday Affective Politics of Nationalist Fashion in CroatiaCatherine Baker
9: Images of Insurgency: Reading the Cuban Revolution through Military Aesthetics and EmbodimentJane Tynan
10: Seize the Time!: Military Aesthetics, Symbolic Revolution and the Black Panther PartyAmy Abugo Ongiri.
1: Basic TrainingDan Evans
2: The Political Aesthetics of the Body of the Soldier in PainFederica Caso
3: Svetlana Alexievich's Soviet Women Veterans and the Aesthetics of the Disabled Military Body: Staring at the Unwomanly Face of WarCatherine Baker
4: Breaking the Silence: Embodiment, Militarisation and Military Dissent in the Israel/Palestine ConflictSorana Jude
5: Death Becomes Him: The Hypervisibility of Martyrdom and Invisibility of the Wounded in the Iconography of Lebanese Militarised MasculinitiesHenri Myrttinen
6: Ginger Cats and Cute Puppies: Animals, Affect, and Militarisation in the Crisis in UkraineJennifer G. Mathers
7: Embodying War, Becoming Warriors: Media, Militarisation and the Case of Islamic State's Online PropagandaDaniel Moller Olgaard
8: The Defender Collection: Militarisation, Historical Mythology and the Everyday Affective Politics of Nationalist Fashion in CroatiaCatherine Baker
9: Images of Insurgency: Reading the Cuban Revolution through Military Aesthetics and EmbodimentJane Tynan
10: Seize the Time!: Military Aesthetics, Symbolic Revolution and the Black Panther PartyAmy Abugo Ongiri.