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

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

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 cont...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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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

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