Ebook: Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics
Author: Catherine Baker
- Year: 2022
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Language: English
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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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