War, Identity and the Liberal State : Everyday Experiences of the Geopolitical in the Armed Forces.

This book critically examines the significance of gender, race and sexuality to wars waged by liberal states. Drawing on original field-research with British soldiers, it offers insights into how their everyday experiences are shaped by, and shape, a politics of gender, race and sexuality that not o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Basham, Victoria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Temas:
Great Britain. > Army > Military life.
Grande-Bretagne. > Army > Vie militaire.
Great Britain. > Army
Sociology, Military > Great Britain.
Soldiers > Great Britain > Attitudes.
Women soldiers > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Sex role > Great Britain.
Masculinity > Great Britain.
Geopolitics.
Sociologie militaire > Grande-Bretagne.
Femmes militaires > Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales.
Rôle selon le sexe > Grande-Bretagne.
Masculinité > Grande-Bretagne.
Géopolitique.
geopolitics.
Armed Forces > Military life
Geopolitics
Masculinity
Race relations
Sex role
Sociology, Military
Soldiers > Attitudes
Great Britain > Race relations.
Grande-Bretagne > Relations raciales.
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; War, Identity and the Liberal State; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Glossary of military terminology and acronyms; Basic rank structure of the British Armed Forces; Introduction: The geopolitics of the everyday in the British Armed Forces; "In the flesh": an introductory tale; War, identity and the liberal state; Researching the geopolitics of the everyday: an invitation to fieldwork; Theorising the geopolitics of the everyday: from experience to performance; Visualising intra-activity; Outline of the book.
  • 1 Materialising identity and the British warfare stateBritish society must be defended; Mind the gap; Support the troops; This green and pleasant land; Securing the peace; Welfare state, warfare state; For Queen and country?; A man's duty?; 2 Intimacies of war and gender: the politics of women's bodies in war; Gender-in-the-making; The biopolitics of gender and the war on terror; Just warriors and beautiful souls; Beautiful bodies; Natural born killers?; Sexy bodies; Reproductive bodies; Weak and leaky bodies; Deploying beautiful souls; The body resists.
  • 3 Forbidden intimacies: rethinking military masculinities through heteronormativity and desireA brief history of sexuality in the British military; Here and queer; Heteronormativity and the limits of tolerance; Heterosexual potency; Military masculinities, homoeroticism and desire; Military masculinities and the geopolitics of desire; 4 Imperial encounters and the structural privileging of whiteness; Protectors of the realm; Who are the "ethnics"?; Political (in)correctness?; Martial races; The "war on terror"; Racisms
  • old and new; Concluding thoughts
  • the march of progress?; Notes.

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