The Militarization of Childhood: Thinking Beyond the Global South

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Everyday Zones of Militarization....Pages 1-15
(Neo) Zones of Violence: Reconstructing Empire on the Bodies of Militarized Youth....Pages 17-41
Guardians of the Peace?: The Significance of Children to Continued Militarism....Pages 43-60
Militarized Children and Sovereign Power....Pages 61-76
Education and the War on Terror: The Early Years....Pages 77-94
War Stories: Militarized Pedagogies of Children’s Everyday....Pages 95-110
Superheroes or Super-Soldiers?: The Militarization of Our Modern-Day Heroes....Pages 111-131
Mediated War: Imaginative Disembodiment and the Militarization of Childhood....Pages 133-152
“We Die for the Glory of the Emperor”: Young People, Warhammer, and Role-Playing War Online....Pages 153-173
Kids with Guns: Militarization, Masculinities, Moral Panic, and (Dis)Organized Violence....Pages 175-193
Interrogating “Militarized” Images and Disrupting Sovereign Narratives in the Case of Omar Khadr....Pages 195-216
The Killers among Us: School Shootings and the Militarization of Childhood....Pages 217-236
Everyday Stories of a Militarized Childhood....Pages 237-253
Back Matter....Pages 255-297