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A Series Edited by Catherine Besteman and Daniel M. Goldstein
ROBERTO J. GONZÁLEZ HUGH GUSTERSON GUSTAAF HOUTMAN EDITORS
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Duke University Press Durham and London 2019
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: González, Roberto J. (Roberto Jesũs), [date] editor. |
Gusterson, Hugh, editor. | Houtman, Gustaaf, editor.
Title: Militarization : a reader / Roberto J. González, Hugh
Gusterson, and Gustaaf Houtman, editors ; in collaboration
with Catherine Besteman, Andrew Bickford, Catherine Lutz,
Katherine T. McCaffrey, Austin Miller, David H. Price,
David Vine.
Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019. |
Series: Global insecurities | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2019008552 (print)
lccn 2019016268 (ebook)
isbn 9781478007135 (ebook)
isbn 9781478005469 (hardcover : alk. paper)
isbn 9781478006237 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: lcsh: Militarization. | Militarism. | War.
Classification: lcc u21.2 (ebook) | lcc u21.2 .m558 2019 (print) |
ddc 355.02/13—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019008552
Cover art: Toy Soldier. Courtesy Pablo Eder/Shutterstock.com.
CONTENTS
Editors’ Note xiii
Acknowle dgments xv
Introduction 1
roberto j. gonzález and hugh gusterson
SECTION I. MILITARIZATION AND PO LITI CAL ECONOMY
Introduction 2 7
catherine lutz
1.1. The U.S. Imperial Triangle and Military Spending 2 9
john bellamy foster, hannah holleman,
and robert w. mcchesney
1.2. Farewell Address to the Nation, January 17, 1961 3 6
dwight d. eisenhower
1.3. The Militarization of Sports and the
Redefinition of Patriotism 3 8
william astore
1.4. Vio lence, Just in Time: War and Work
in Con temporary West Africa 4 2
daniel hoffman
1.5. Women, Economy, War 5 1
carolyn nordstrom
SECTION II. MILITARY LABOR
Introduction 5 7
andrew bickford
2.1. Soldiering as Work: The All- Volunteer
Force in the United States 5 9
beth bailey
2.2. Sexing the Globe 6 2
sealing cheng
2.3. Military Monks 6 7
michael jerryson
2.4. Child Soldiers after War 7 1
brandon kohrt and robert koenig
2.5. Asian Labor in the War time Japa nese Empire 7 3
paul h. kratoska
2.6. Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry 7 6
p. w. singer
SECTION III. GENDER AND MILITARISM
Introduction 8 3
katherine t. mccaffrey
3.1. Gender in Transition: Common Sense, Women, and War 8 5
kimberly theidon
3.2. The Compassionate Warrior: War time Sacrifice 9 1
jean bethke elshtain
3.3. Creating Citizens, Making Men:
The Military and Masculinity in Bolivia 95
lesley gill
3.4. One of the Guys: Military Women and the Argentine Army 1 01
máximo badaró
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SECTION IV. THE EMOTIONAL LIFE OF MILITARISM
Introduction 1 09
catherine lutz
4.1. Militarization and the Madness of Everyday Life 1 11
nancy scheper- hughes
4.2. Fear as a Way of Life 1 18
linda green
4.3. Evil, the Self, and Survival 1 27
robert jay lifton (interviewed by harry kreisler)
4.4. Target Audience: The Emotional Impact
of U.S. Government Films on Nuclear Testing 1 30
joseph masco
SECTION V. RHE TORICS OF MILITARISM
Introduction 1 41
andrew bickford
5.1. The Militarization of Cherry Blossoms 1 43
emiko ohnuki- tierney
5.2. The “Old West” in the Middle East: U.S. Military Meta phors
in Real and Imagined Indian Country 1 48
stephen w. silliman
5.3. Ideology, Culture, and the Cold War 1 54
naoko shibusawa
5.4. The Military Normal: Feeling at Home with Counterinsurgency
in the United States 157
catherine lutz
5.5. Nuclear Orientalism 1 63
hugh gusterson
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SECTION VI. MILITARIZATION, PLACE, AND TERRITORY
Introduction 1 67
roberto j. gonzález
6.1. Making War at Home 1 69
catherine lutz
6.2. Spillover: The U.S. Military’s Sociospatial Impact 1 75
mark l. gillem
6.3. Nuclear Landscapes: The Marshall Islands and Its Radioactive Legacy 1 81
barbara rose johnston
6.4. The War on Terror, Dismantling, and the Construction of Place:
An Ethnographic Perspective from Palestine 186
julie peteet
6.5. The Border Wall Is a Meta phor 1 92
jason de león (interviewed by micheline aharonian marcom)
SECTION VII. MILITARIZED HUMANITARIANISM
Introduction 1 97
catherine besteman
7.1. Laboratory of Intervention: The Humanitarian Governance
of the Postcommunist Balkan Territories 1 99
mariella pandolfi
7.2. Armed for Humanity 2 03
michael barnett
7.3. The Passions of Protection: Sovereign Authority
and Humanitarian War 2 08
anne orford
7.4. Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish? 2 12
mahmood mamdani
7.5. Utopias of Power: From Human Security
to the Responsibility to Protect 2 18
chowra makaremi
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SECTION VIII. MILITARISM AND THE MEDIA
Introduction 2 23
hugh gusterson
8.1. Pentagon Pundits 2 24
david barstow (interviewed by amy goodman)
8.2. Operation Hollywood 2 30
david L. robb (interviewed by jeff fleischer)
8.3. Discipline and Publish 2 34
mark pedelty
8.4. The Enola Gay on Display 239
john whittier treat
8.5. War Porn: Hollywood and War, from World War II
to American Sniper 243
peter van buren
SECTION IX. MILITARIZING KNOWLEDGE
Introduction 2 49
david h. price
9.1. Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations,
and International and Area Studies during and after the Cold War 2 51
bruce cumings
9.2. The Career of Cold War Psy chol ogy 2 54
ellen herman
9.3. Scientific Colonialism 259
johan galtung
9.4. Research in Foreign Areas 2 65
ralph l. beals
9.5. Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education 2 70
henry A. giroux (interviewed by chronis polychroniou)
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