Bøger i Advances in Critical Military Studies serien

Examines the mythology of the peacekeeper and how it functions to sustain militarism in global politics The peacekeeper - impartial, disciplined, helpful and restrained in their lethal capacity - is a powerful trope. This book examines the mythology of international peacekeeping, using Canada as a case study to explore how the peacekeeping myth both challenged and condoned combat activities in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2014. While Afghanistan was explicitly not a peacekeeping mission, peacekeeping mythology circulated throughout discourse about the War. Introducing a novel framework k- martial peace - Nicole Wegner offers an in-depth examination of the Canadian Armed Forces missions to Afghanistan and the use of police violence against Indigenous protests in Canada as case examples where military violence has been justified in the name of peace. In doing so, she reveals how gender, militarism and nationalism operated in political discourse to justify military force and violence in the name of peace. Martialling Peace critically investigates the peacekeeper myth and challenges academic, government and popular beliefs that martial violence is required to sustain peace. Nicole Wegner is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gender and War at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Explores the ways in which affect, colonial histories and militarism organise global security workforces within private military and security companies This book locates its analysis with Gurkhas: a group of militarised men from Nepal with over 200-years of military experience with the British and Indian armies and the Singaporean police, who now participate as security contractors in global markets. These men are celebrated in British popular culture for their heroic martial attributes and their broader military service to the United Kingdom. However, less well known, is the fact that many Gurkhas (located in Nepal) and their families are drawn into these markets under often exploitative relations. Drawing upon over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork with unprecedented access to these security communities throughout Nepal and in Afghanistan, the book's motivating questions are: how is security made through these market relations and how is this security experienced by Gurkhas and their families? Amanda Chisholm is Senior Lecturer in the School of Security Studies, King's College London.

Disordered Violence looks at how gender, race, and heteronormative expectations of public life shape Western understandings of terrorism as irrational, immoral and illegitimate. Caron Gentry examines the profiles of 8 well-known terrorist actors, including Andreas Baader, Bernardine Dohrn, Leila Khaled, Dhanu, Anders Breivik, Nidal Hasan and Aafia Siddiqui. Gentry looks for gendered, racial, and sexualised assumptions in how their stories are told. Additionally, she interrogates how the current counterterrorism focus upon radicalisation is another way of constructing terrorists outside of the Western ideal. Finally, the book argues that mainstream Terrorism Studies must contend with the growing misogynist and racialised violence against women.

This book explores why anti-militarists resist, considers the politics of different tactics and examines the tensions and debates within the movement. It argues that anti-militarists can help us understand militarism in new and useful ways, and that that the methods of anti-militarists can be a potent force for radical political change.

Combining perspectives on aesthetics and embodiment to understand militarism 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. The volume synthesises three recent turns in the study of international politics: aesthetics, embodiment and the everyday, into a new conceptual framework for understanding how militarism permeates society and how far its practices can be re-appropriated or even turned against it. Through a range of case studies covering 20th- and 21st-century conflicts on four different continents, the authors of this collection provide a vital introduction to three current concepts in international politics research. Key Features: - Illustrates how processes of militarisation operate in the continuum between military institutions and everyday civilian life - Case studies range 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 research - Integrates social identities including race, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability Catherine Baker is Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History at the University of Hull.

Combining perspectives on aesthetics and embodiment to understand militarism 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. The volume synthesises three recent turns in the study of international politics: aesthetics, embodiment and the everyday, into a new conceptual framework for understanding how militarism permeates society and how far its practices can be re-appropriated or even turned against it. Through a range of case studies covering 20th- and 21st-century conflicts on four different continents, the authors of this collection provide a vital introduction to three current concepts in international politics research. Key Features: - Illustrates how processes of militarisation operate in the continuum between military institutions and everyday civilian life - Case studies range 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 research - Integrates social identities including race, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability Catherine Baker is Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History at the University of Hull.