Making War on Bodies : : Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics / / Catherine Baker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Baker, Catherine,
• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Catherine,; Caso, Federica,; Evans, Dan,; Jude, Sorana,; Mathers, Jennifer G.,; Myrttinen, Henri,; Ongiri, Amy Abugo,; Tynan, Jane,; Ølgaard, Daniel Møller,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Advances in Critical Military Studies : ACMS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Combines perspectives on aesthetics and embodiment to understand militarism in international politicsIllustrates how processes of militarisation operate in the continuum between military institutions and everyday civilian lifeCase studies cover 20th- and 21st-century conflicts on four different continents: from the Middle East and post-socialist Europe to the USA, Britain, Australia and Cuba Offers diverse methodological examples including autoethnography, visual analysis, fashion history, and digital media researchIntegrates social identities including race, sexual orientation, gender identity and disabilityThis 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. ContributorsCatherine Baker, University of Hull, UK.Federica Caso, University of Queensland, Australia. Dan Evans, independent researcher, support worker and activist. Sorana Jude, Newcastle University, UK. Jennifer G. Mathers, Aberystwyth University, UK.Daniel Møller Ølgaard, Lund University, Sweden.Henri Myrttinen, Mauerpark Institute, GermanyAmy Abugo Ongiri, Lawrence University, USA. Jane Tynan, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics -- 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. Breaking 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