Making war on bodies militarisation, aesthetics and embodiment in international politics

This 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

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Other Authors: Baker, Catherine (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2020]
Series:Advances in critical military studies
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Table of Contents:
  • 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, Daniel
  • 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