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

Catherine Baker

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2020

Making War on Bodies

Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics

Catherine Baker

In the series Advances in Critical Military Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474446204

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About this book

Combines perspectives on aesthetics and embodiment to understand militarism in international politics

Illustrates how processes of militarisation operate in the continuum between military institutions and everyday civilian life
Case 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 research
Integrates social identities including race, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability

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. 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.

Contributors

Catherine 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, Germany
Amy Abugo Ongiri, Lawrence University, USA.
Jane Tynan, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
Introduction. Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics Catherine Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Basic Training Dan Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2. The Political Aesthetics of the Body of the Soldier in Pain Federica Caso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
3. Svetlana Alexievich’s Soviet Women Veterans and the Aesthetics of the Disabled Military Body: Staring at the Unwomanly Face of War Catherine Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
4. Breaking the Silence: Embodiment, Militarisation and Military Dissent in the Israel/Palestine Conflict Sorana Jude Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
5. Death Becomes Him: The Hypervisibility of Martyrdom and Invisibility of the Wounded in the Iconography of Lebanese Militarised Masculinities Henri Myrttinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
6. Ginger Cats and Cute Puppies: Animals, Affect and Militarisation in the Crisis in Ukraine Jennifer G. Mathers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
7. Embodying War, Becoming Warriors: Media, Militarisation and the Case of Islamic State’s Online Propaganda Daniel Møller Ølgaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
8. The Defender Collection: Militarisation, Historical Mythology and the Everyday Affective Politics of Nationalist Fashion in Croatia Catherine Baker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
9. Images of Insurgency: Reading the Cuban Revolution through Military Aesthetics and Embodiment Jane Tynan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
10. Seize the Time!: Military Aesthetics, Symbolic Revolution and the Black Panther Party Amy Abugo Ongiri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Politics

eBook

Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9781474446204