Security Disarmed : : Critical Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Militarization / / ed. by Julie Novkov, Barbara Sutton, Sandra Morgen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bahramitash, Roksana,; Feldman, Leonard C.,; Feldman, Leonard,; Hobson, Janell,; Houippert, Karen,; Houppert, Karen,; Kirk, Gwyn,; Lee, Barbara,; Lutz, Catherine,; Mann, Bonnie,; McCaffrey, Katherine T,; McCaffrey, Katherine T.,; McFadden, Patricia,; Morgen, Sandra,; Novkov, Julie,; Sharoni, Simona,; Smith, Ron,; Sousa, Cindy,; Stephen, Lynn,; Sutton, Barbara,; Teaiwa, Teresia K.,; Teaiwa, Teresia,
• HerausgeberIn: Morgen, Sandra,; Novkov, Julie,; Sutton, Barbara,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)

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 militarizationùincluding but going beyond American military engagements in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. Beyond Militarization: Alternative Visions of Security -- 1. Rethinking Security, Confronting Inequality: An Introduction -- 2. Contesting Militarization: Global Perspectives -- 3. Gender, Race, and Militarism: Toward a More Just Alternative -- 4. Activist Statements: Visions and Strategies for a Just Peace -- PART II. Cross-National Militarization -- 5. Los Nuevos Desaparecidos y Muertos: Immigration, Militarization, Death, and Disappearance on Mexico’s Borders -- 6. Saving Iranian Women: Orientalist Feminism and the Axis of Evil -- 7. On Women and “Indians”: The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Militarized Fiji -- 8. Plunder as Statecraft: Militarism and Resistance in Neocolonial Africa -- 9. Because Vieques Is Our Home: Defend It! Women Resisting Militarization in Vieques, Puerto Rico -- PART III. Localizing Militarization in the United States -- 10. Manhood, Sexuality, and Nation in Post-9/11 United States -- 11. The Citizen-Soldier as a Substitute Soldier: Militarism at the Intersection of Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism -- 12. I Want You! The 3 R’s: Reading, ’Riting, and Recruiting -- 13. Living Room Terrorists -- PART IV. Demilitarization, Pedagogy, and Culture -- 14. Militarizing Women in Film: Toward a Cinematic Framing of War and Terror -- 15. Army of None: Militarism, Positionality, and Film -- 16. Teaching about Gender, Race, and Militarization after 9/11: Nurturing Dissent, Compassion, and Hope in the Classroom -- Conclusion -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index