Militarization: A Reader

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Editors’ Note......Page 14
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
Introduction......Page 44
1.1. The U.S. Imperial Triangle and Military Spending......Page 46
1.2. Farewell Address to the Nation, January 17, 1961......Page 53
1.3. The Militarization of Sports and the Redefinition of Patriotism......Page 55
1.4. Violence, Just in Time: War and Work in Contemporary West Africa......Page 59
1.5. Women, Economy, War......Page 68
Introduction......Page 74
2.1. Soldiering as Work: The All-Volunteer Force in the United States......Page 76
2.2. Sexing the Globe......Page 79
2.3. Military Monks......Page 84
2.4. Child Soldiers after War......Page 88
2.5. Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire......Page 90
2.6. Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry......Page 93
Introduction......Page 100
3.1. Gender in Transition: Common Sense, Women, and War......Page 102
3.2. The Compassionate Warrior: Wartime Sacrifice......Page 108
3.3. Creating Citizens, Making Men: The Military and Masculinity in Bolivia......Page 112
3.4. One of the Guys: Military Women and the Argentine Army......Page 118
Introduction......Page 126
4.1. Militarization and the Madness of Everyday Life......Page 128
4.2. Fear as a Way of Life......Page 135
4.3. Evil, the Self, and Survival......Page 144
4.4. Target Audience: The Emotional Impact of U.S. Government Films on Nuclear Testing......Page 147
Introduction......Page 158
5.1. The Militarization of Cherry Blossoms......Page 160
5.2. The “Old West” in the Middle East: U.S. Military Metaphors in Real and Imagined Indian Country......Page 165
5.3. Ideology, Culture, and the Cold War......Page 171
5.4. The Military Normal: Feeling at Home with Counterinsurgency in the United States......Page 174
5.5. Nuclear Orientalism......Page 180
Introduction......Page 184
6.1. Making War at Home......Page 186
6.2. Spillover: The U.S. Military’s Sociospatial Impact......Page 192
6.3. Nuclear Landscapes: The Marshall Islands and Its Radioactive Legacy......Page 198
6.4. The War on Terror, Dismantling, and the Construction of Place: An Ethnographic Perspective from Palestine......Page 203
6.5. The Border Wall Is a Metaphor......Page 209
Introduction......Page 214
7.1. Laboratory of Intervention: The Humanitarian Governance of the Postcommunist Balkan Territories......Page 216
7.2. Armed for Humanity......Page 220
7.3. The Passions of Protection: Sovereign Authority and Humanitarian War......Page 225
7.4. Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish?......Page 229
7.5. Utopias of Power: From Human Security to the Responsibility to Protect......Page 235
Introduction......Page 240
8.1. Pentagon Pundits......Page 241
8.2. Operation Hollywood......Page 247
8.3. Discipline and Publish......Page 251
8.4. The Enola Gay on Display......Page 256
8.5. War Porn: Hollywood and War, from World War II to American Sniper......Page 260
Introduction......Page 266
9.1. Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and International and Area Studies during and after the Cold War......Page 268
9.2. The Career of Cold War Psychology......Page 271
9.3. Scientific Colonialism......Page 276
9.4. Research in Foreign Areas......Page 282
9.5. Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education......Page 287
Introduction......Page 292
10.1. Nuclear War, the Gulf War, and the Disappearing Body......Page 293
10.2. The Structure of War: The Juxtaposition of Injured Bodies and Unanchored Issues......Page 300
10.3. The Enhanced Warfighter......Page 308
10.4. Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua......Page 313
Introduction......Page 320
11.1. Giving Up the Gun: Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879......Page 322
11.2. Life Underground: Building the American Bunker Society......Page 324
11.3. Militarizing Space......Page 333
11.4. Embodiment and Affect in a Digital Age: Understanding Mental Illness among Military Drone Personnel......Page 336
11.5. Land Mines and Cluster Bombs: “Weapons of Mass Destruction in Slow Motion\"......Page 341
11.6. Pledge of Non-Participation......Page 345
11.7. The Scientists’ Call to Ban Autonomous Lethal Robots......Page 346
Introduction......Page 350
12.1. War Is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity......Page 353
12.2. Reflections on the Possibility of a Nonkilling Society and a Nonkilling Anthropology......Page 356
12.3. U.S. Bases, Empire, and Global Response......Page 361
12.4. Down Here......Page 364
12.5. War, Culture, and Counterinsurgency......Page 366
12.6. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities......Page 367
References......Page 372
Contributors......Page 400
A......Page 406
C......Page 407
E......Page 409
G......Page 410
I......Page 411
K......Page 412
M......Page 413
N......Page 414
P......Page 415
S......Page 416
T......Page 417
V......Page 418
Z......Page 419
Credits......Page 420