War, Politics and Experience
About the Book Series
The Experiencing War series explores war as a range of activities that might begin with armed conflict--or not –but engages and affects larger public and private elements of daily life over time. The war experiences of people close to and removed from conflict zones can challenge their histories, memories, and landmarks, as well as the infrastructures of daily life. War can also create new identities, new social relations and movements, and new literature and art styles, while simultaneously intensifying problems of human hunger, climate change, or wildlife extinction. This series encourages work about war experiences that goes beyond usual war/peace and public/private divides to a sense of war as a wide-ranging phenomenon. Methodologies appropriate to this endeavor are many, especially innovative and/or collaborative approaches that cross academic disciplines.
Gender, Agency and War: The Maternalized Body in US Foreign Policy
1st Edition
By Tina Managhan
June 16, 2017
This book traces practices of militarization and resistance that have emerged under the sign of motherhood in US Foreign Policy. Gender, Agency and War examines this discourse against the background of three key moments of American foreign policy formation: the anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s, ...
Masquerades of War
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine Sylvester
December 22, 2016
This book explores the concepts and practices of masquerade as they apply to concepts and practices of war. It is designed to helpful for students interested in critical war studies, critical security, conflict studies and international relations....
Bodies, Power and Resistance in the Middle East: Experiences of Subjectification in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
1st Edition
By Caitlin Ryan
September 14, 2015
The book examines how exercises of power and processes of security exercised in the Occupied Palestinian Territories have formed Palestinian women as subjects. To understand how women experience occupation, this book examines the various ways in which the occupation is directed at making ...
War and the Body: Militarisation, Practice and Experience
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin McSorley
June 08, 2015
This edited volume places the body at the centre of critical thinking about war and its consequences. War is fundamentally embodied. The reality of war is not just politics by any other means but politics incarnate, politics written on and experienced through the thinking, feeling bodies of men and...
Fictional International Relations: Gender, Pain and Truth
1st Edition
By Sungju Park-Kang
April 17, 2014
This book proposes the idea of fictional International Relations (IR) and engages with feminist IR by contextualising the case of a woman spy in Korea in the Cold War. Fictional imagination and feminist IR encourage one to go beyond conventional or standard ways of thinking; it reshapes ...
The Political Psychology of War Rape: Studies from Bosnia and Herzegovina
1st Edition
By Inger Skjelsbæk
October 03, 2013
This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding war rape and its impact, through empirical examination of the case of Bosnia. Providing a contextual understanding of sexual violence in war, and situating Bosnian war rape in relation to subsequent conflicts, the book offers a ...
Joy and International Relations: A New Methodology
1st Edition
By Elina Penttinen
March 11, 2013
This book aims to develop new methodology for the study of international relations (IR) based on joy, informed by current thinking about posthumanism, feminist theory and positive psychology. It examines how the mechanistic-deterministic worldview derived from the Newtonian model has influenced the...
The Politics of Protest and US Foreign Policy: Performative Construction of the War on Terror
1st Edition
By Cami Rowe
February 14, 2013
This book offers a study of post-9/11 anti-war organizations in the United States and their role in domestic foreign policy debates. The moment of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has been much cited in political and cultural scholarship and much attention has been paid to the promotion of "War on ...
War as Experience: Contributions from International Relations and Feminist Analysis
1st Edition
By Christine Sylvester
October 15, 2012
This book is a major new contribution to our understanding of war and international relations (IR). Divided into two sections, the first part surveys the state of war and war studies in international relations, security studies and in feminist international relations. The second part ...
Experiencing War
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine Sylvester
November 22, 2010
This edited collection explores aspects of contemporary war that affect average people –physically, emotionally, and ethically through activities ranging from combat to television viewing. The aim of this work is to supplement the usual emphasis on strategic and national issues of war in the ...