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‘Homes for Ukraine’ and the politics of private humanitarian hospitality
Within weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, millions of people had fled to neighbouring countries and across Europe. People throughout Europe were mobilised into action and from the outset, the response to the unfolding humanitarian emergency in Ukraine was a complex and often messy web of private and public initiatives. In this article we focus on the unique British humanitarian response to the greatest movement of refugees in Europe since World War 2, known as ‘Homes for Ukraine’ (HfU).
We develop our argument in three steps. Firstly, we situate HfU within existing scholarship on ‘everyday humanitarianism’ and private refugee hosting in Europe, locating these within longer histories of private humanitarian action. Secondly, we show how HfU shifts the humanitarian space into the private and domestic sphere, a move reliant on particular conceptions of the ‘home’ as a space of sanctuary and safety. Finally, we unpack the gendered and racialised conceptions of the home and humanitarian hospitality more broadly, and how HfU sits within and outside of the broader bordering practices of the United Kingdom’s refugee response.</p
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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
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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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What's the point of International Relations?
'What’s the Point of International Relations' casts a critical eye on what it is that we think we are doing when we study and teach international relations (IR). It brings together many of IR’s leading thinkers to challenge conventional understandings of the discipline’s origins, history, and composition. It sees IR as a discipline that has much to learn from others, which has not yet lived up to its ambitions or potential, and where much work remains to be done. At the same time, it finds much that is worth celebrating in the discipline’s growing pluralism and views IR as a deeply political, critical, and normative pursuit. The volume is divided into five parts: • What is the point of IR? • The origins of a discipline • Policing the boundaries • Engaging the world • Imagining the future Although each chapter alludes to and/or discusses central aspects of all of these components, each part is designed to capture the central thrust of the concerns of the contributors. Moving beyond western debate, orthodox perspectives, and uncritical histories this volume is essential reading for all scholars and advanced level students concerned with the history, development, and future of international relations