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Negotiating enemy lines: the complexities of collaboration with the British military
In this University of Oxford Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Lauren Greenwood (University of Sussex) discusses the complexities of collaboration with the British military, 29 May 201
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Embodying militarism: exploring the spaces and bodies in between
How are militarism and militarisation embodied and why is it important to study these concepts together? This volume highlights a lack of research into people’s emotions, bodies and experiences in global politics, and brings these important dimensions to bear on how we study militarism and process of militarisation. This collection showcases innovative research that examines people’s everyday lived experience and the multiple ways militarism is enshrined in our societies. Emphasising the benefits of interdisciplinary thinking, its chapters interrogate a range of methodological, ethical, and theoretical questions related to embodiment and militarism from a range of empirical contexts. Authors from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds reveal the myriad of ways in which militarism is experienced by gendered, raced, aged, and sexed bodies. The volume covers a wide range of topics, including the impact of social media; gender, queer, and feminist research on the military; the challenges of writing about embodied experience; and the commercialisation of military fitness in civilian life. This book fills a gap in the study of militarism and militarisation and will be of interest to students and scholars of critical military studies, security studies, and war studies. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Critical Military Studies
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Whole-of-government approaches to fragile states and situations
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Introduction
This introductory chapter gives an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents a Special Issue of Critical Military Studies creates an inter-disciplinary space to explore embodied experiences of militarism, militarization, and war, and engages with some of the challenges faced when studying the military. The pieces collected here, in their own ways, stretch the concepts of militarism and militarization in directions that pay attention to its emotional, embodied, sensed, and corporeal manifestations. Militarism and militarization have in recent years often been sidelined in much academic debate, consequently creating a gap in research across the social sciences. While embodiment has been a central focus in anthropology, notably during the paradigmatic shift of the 1970s and 1980s towards the 'anthropology of the body', there is a distinct lack of anthropological work that connects these themes with militarism, with some important exceptions.</p