
Demilitarizing the Future
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New Books Network "What futures do people conjure and endure in worlds shattered by war and its many aftermaths? The essays in this essential volume exemplify a critical approach to demilitarization-grounding the reader in the material realities of violence while remaining perceptive to political possibilities that resonate across bodies, landscapes, and memories." - Eleana Kim, Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies, University of California, Irvine, and author of Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters along the Korean DMZ"Militarism is multiple, alternatively spectacular and mundane, embodied and ecological. Ranging from essays to poetry to speculative script, the pieces in this volume span Palestine to Peru, Afghanistan to America, Vietnam to Cambodia to Iraq, attesting to the plural spaces and times of demilitarization. A must-read for those committed to demilitarized futures!" - Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi, author of Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine
"An engaging, genre-crossing collection that illuminates how war's legacies haunt and remake our everyday worlds. The powerful essays outline the basis for demilitarizing our bodies, homes, art forms, and landscapes. Original, powerful, and deeply moving. Essential reading for anyone interested in envisioning a post-militarized Earth." - Ken MacLean, Professor at The Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, USA
"Combining powerful storytelling with poetry and photography, this timely collection unravels the lingering effects of militarism that percolate into the most intimate domains of life, bodies, and environments. In an era of accelerated planetary arms races, we urgently need to ask what it would take to demilitarize the future. This volume is an important stepping-stone toward doing that." -David Henig, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University
"Demilitarizing the Future presents an innovative approach to deconstructing/reimagining/reinterpreting our wholly militarized world. It presents a new way of seeing (or unseeing) what we somehow take for granted or leave to military specialists (war makers) and post-conflict experts (peace makers/builders) to interpret and 'deal with' for us. While there are many scholars who bring a critical lens to particular aspects of demilitarization, it seems to me that there are no collections like this one." -Larry Swatuk, Professor Emeritus, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada
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Rebecca Kastleman is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her research focuses on modern drama, theater, and performance and its intersections with social thought.
Joshua O Reno is Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University. He is the author of several books on subjects ranging from waste management, the military industrial complex, and White supremacy in the United States, to disability and non-verbal communication.
Leah Zani is a public anthropologist based in Oakland, California. She is the author of several books and articles that investigate the social impact of explosives.
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