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 in 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.
In collaboration with Catherine Besteman, Andrew Bickford, Catherine Lutz, Katherine T. McCaffrey, Austin Miller, David H. Price, David Vine
- Cover
- Contents
- Editors’ Note
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- SECTION I. MILITARIZATION AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
- Introduction
- 1.1. The U.S. Imperial Triangle and Military Spending
- 1.2. Farewell Address to the Nation, January 17, 1961
- 1.3. The Militarization of Sports and the Redefinition of Patriotism
- 1.4. Violence, Just in Time: War and Work in Contemporary West Africa
- 1.5. Women, Economy, War
- SECTION II. MILITARY LABOR
- Introduction
- 2.1. Soldiering as Work: The All-Volunteer Force in the United States
- 2.2. Sexing the Globe
- 2.3. Military Monks
- 2.4. Child Soldiers after War
- 2.5. Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire
- 2.6. Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
- SECTION III. GENDER AND MILITARISM
- Introduction
- 3.1. Gender in Transition: Common Sense, Women, and War
- 3.2. The Compassionate Warrior: Wartime Sacrifice
- 3.3. Creating Citizens, Making Men: The Military and Masculinity in Bolivia
- 3.4. One of the Guys: Military Women and the Argentine Army
- SECTION IV. THE EMOTIONAL LIFE OF MILITARISM
- Introduction
- 4.1. Militarization and the Madness of Everyday Life
- 4.2. Fear as a Way of Life
- 4.3. Evil, the Self, and Survival
- 4.4. Target Audience: The Emotional Impact of U.S. Government Films on Nuclear Testing
- SECTION V. RHETORICS OF MILITARISM
- Introduction
- 5.1. The Militarization of Cherry Blossoms
- 5.2. The “Old West” in the Middle East: U.S. Military Metaphors in Real and Imagined Indian Country
- 5.3. Ideology, Culture, and the Cold War
- 5.4. The Military Normal: Feeling at Home with Counterinsurgency in the United States
- 5.5. Nuclear Orientalism
- SECTION VI. MILITARIZATION, PLACE, AND TERRITORY
- Introduction
- 6.1. Making War at Home
- 6.2. Spillover: The U.S. Military’s Sociospatial Impact
- 6.3. Nuclear Landscapes: The Marshall Islands and Its Radioactive Legacy
- 6.4. The War on Terror, Dismantling, and the Construction of Place: An Ethnographic Perspective from Palestine
- 6.5. The Border Wall Is a Metaphor
- SECTION VII. MILITARIZED HUMANITARIANISM
- Introduction
- 7.1. Laboratory of Intervention: The Humanitarian Governance of the Postcommunist Balkan Territories
- 7.2. Armed for Humanity
- 7.3. The Passions of Protection: Sovereign Authority and Humanitarian War
- 7.4. Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish?
- 7.5. Utopias of Power: From Human Security to the Responsibility to Protect
- SECTION VIII. MILITARISM AND THE MEDIA
- Introduction
- 8.1. Pentagon Pundits
- 8.2. Operation Hollywood
- 8.3. Discipline and Publish
- 8.4. The Enola Gay on Display
- 8.5. War Porn: Hollywood and War, from World War II to American Sniper
- SECTION IX. MILITARIZING KNOWLEDGE
- Introduction
- 9.1. Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and International and Area Studies during and after the Cold War
- 9.2. The Career of Cold War Psychology
- 9.3. Scientific Colonialism
- 9.4. Research in Foreign Areas
- 9.5. Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education
- SECTION X. MILITARIZATION AND THE BODY
- Introduction
- 10.1. Nuclear War, the Gulf War, and the Disappearing Body
- 10.2. The Structure of War: The Juxtaposition of Injured Bodies and Unanchored Issues
- 10.3. The Enhanced Warfighter
- 10.4. Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua
- SECTION XI. MILITARISM AND TECHNOLOGY
- Introduction
- 11.1. Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879
- 11.2. Life Underground: Building the American Bunker Society
- 11.3. Militarizing Space
- 11.4. Embodiment and Affect in a Digital Age: Understanding Mental Illness among Military Drone Personnel
- 11.5. Land Mines and Cluster Bombs: “Weapons of Mass Destruction in Slow Motion"
- 11.6. Pledge of Non-Participation
- 11.7. The Scientists’ Call to Ban Autonomous Lethal Robots
- SECTION XII. ALTERNATIVES TO MILITARIZATION
- Introduction
- 12.1. War Is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity
- 12.2. Reflections on the Possibility of a Nonkilling Society and a Nonkilling Anthropology
- 12.3. U.S. Bases, Empire, and Global Response
- 12.4. Down Here
- 12.5. War, Culture, and Counterinsurgency
- 12.6. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
- References
- Contributors
- Index
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