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War and the Body : Militarisation, Practice and Experience.
This edited volume places the body at the centre of critical thinking about war and its consequences. War is fundamentally embodied. The reality of war is not just politics by any other means but politics incarnate, politics written on and experienced through the thinking, feeling bodies of men and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | War, politics and experience.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; War and the Body: Militarisation, practice and experience; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 War and the body; Part I Militarising bodies; 2 Preparing and resisting the war body: Training in the British Army; 3 Steeling the body for war in Austrofascist education; 4 Too fat to fight?: Obesity, bio-politics and the militarisation of children's bodies; 5 Military chic: Fashioning civilian bodies for war; Part II Embodying war; 6 On patrol: The embodied phenomenology of infantry.
- 7 'Switching on' for cash: The Private Militarised Security contractor as geo-corporeal actor8 Affect, agency, and responsibility: The act of killing in the age of cyborgs; 9 Grammars of violence, modes of embodiment and frontiers of the subject; 10 Soldiers' bodies and the contemporary British military memoir; Part III Corporeal aftermaths; 11 "An unbroken man despite losing an arm": Corporeal reconstruction and embodied difference
- prosthetics in Western Germany after the Second World War (c. 1945-1960).
- 12 War-wounds: Disability, memory and narratives of war in a Lebanese disability rehabilitation hospital13 Memorialising the veteran body: New Zealand nuclear test veterans and the search for military citizenship; 14 The war dead and the body politic: Rendering the dead soldier's body in the new global (dis)order; 15 Bodies, masculinities and complex inheritances; Conclusion; 16 Rethinking war and the body; Index.