Security Disarmed
Critical Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Militarization
1st Edition
Published on 13. August 2008
314 pages
978-0-8135-4555-4 (ISBN)
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From the history of state terrorism in Latin America, to state- and group-perpetrated plunder and genocide in Africa, to war and armed conflicts in the Middle East, militarization--the heightened role of organized aggression in society--continues to painfully shape the lives of millions of people around the world. In Security Disarmed, scholars, policy planners, and activists come together to think critically about the human cost of violence and viable alternatives to armed conflict. Arranged in four parts--alternative paradigms of security, cross-national militarization, militarism in the United States, and pedagogical and cultural concerns--the book critically challenges militarization and voices an alternative encompassing vision of human security by analyzing the relationships among gender, race, and militarization. This collection of essays evaluates and resists the worldwide crisis of militarizationuincluding but going beyond American military engagements in the twenty-first century.
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Sandra Morgen | Barbara Sutton | Julie Novkov
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Critical Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Militarization
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Beyond Militarization: Alternative Visions of Security
- Chapter 1: Rethinking Security, Confronting Inequality: An Introduction
- Chapter 2: Contesting Militarization: Global Perspectives
- Chapter 3: Gender, Race, and Militarism: Toward a More Just Alternative
- Chapter 4: Activist Statements: Visions and Strategies for a Just Peace
- Part II: Cross-National Militarization
- Chapter 5: Los Nuevos Desaparecidos y Muertos: Immigration, Militarization, Death, and Disappearance on Mexico's Borders
- Chapter 6: Saving Iranian Women: Orientalist Feminism and the Axis of Evil
- Chapter 7: On Women and "Indians": The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Militarized Fiji
- Chapter 8: Plunder as Statecraft: Militarism and Resistance in Neocolonial Africa
- Chapter 9: Because Vieques Is Our Home: Defend It!: Women Resisting Militarization in Vieques, Puerto Rico
- Part III: Localizing Militarization in the United States
- Chapter 10: Manhood, Sexuality, and Nation in Post-9/11 United States
- Chapter 11: The Citizen-Soldier as a Substitute Soldier: Militarism at the Intersection of Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism
- Chapter 12: I Want You!: The 3 R's: Reading, 'Riting, and Recruiting
- Chapter 13: Living Room Terrorists
- Part IV: Demilitarization, Pedagogy, and Culture
- Chapter 14: Militarizing Women in Film: Toward a Cinematic Framing of War and Terror
- Chapter 15: Army of None: Militarism, Positionality, and Film
- Chapter 16: Teaching about Gender, Race, and Militarization after 9/11: Nurturing Dissent, Compassion, and Hope in the Classroom
- Conclusion
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
