Making War on Bodies
Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics
Published on 2. March 2020
289 pages
978-1-4744-4620-4 (ISBN)
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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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Catherine Baker
Making War on Bodies
Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics
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03/2020
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and
- 1. Basic Training
- 2. The Political Aesthetics of the Body of the Soldier in Pain
- 3. Svetlana Alexievich's Soviet Women Veterans and the Aesthetics of the Disabled Military Body: Staring at the Unwomanly Face of War
- 4. Breaki ng the Silence: Embodiment, Militarisation and Military Dissent in the Israel/Palestine Conflict
- 5. Death Becomes Him: The Hypervisibility of Martyrdom and Invisibility of the Wounded in the Iconography of Lebanese Militarised Masculinities
- 6. Ginger Cats and Cute Puppies: Animals, Affect and Militarisation in the Crisis in Ukraine
- 7. Embodying War, Becoming Warriors: Media, Militarisation and the Case of Islamic State's Online Propaganda
- 8. The Defender Collection: Militarisation, Historical Mythology and the Everyday Affective Politics of Nationalist Fashion in Croatia
- 9. Images of Insurgency: Reading the Cuban Revolution through Military Aesthetics and Embodiment
- 10. Seize the Time!: Military Aesthetics, Symbolic Revolution and the Black Panther Party
- Index
