War, Politics and Experience
Gender Politics and Security Discourse: Personal-Political Imaginations and Feminism in 'Post-conflict' Serbia
1st Edition
By Laura McLeod
March 31, 2021
This book investigates competing modes of thought about gender security and aims to understand the policy implications of personal-political imaginations.The work draws upon extensive research conducted by the author in Serbia to develop a comprehensive picture of how feminist and women’s ...
Reimagining Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Nuclear Humanities in the Post-Cold War
1st Edition
Edited
By N.A.J. Taylor, Robert Jacobs
September 30, 2020
This edited volume reconsiders the importance of the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki from a post-Cold War perspective. It has been argued that during the Cold War era scholarship was limited by the anxiety that authors felt about the possibility of a global thermonuclear war, and the role their ...
Gendering Counterinsurgency: Performativity, Embodiment and Experience in the Afghan ‘Theatre of War’
1st Edition
By Synne L. Dyvik
June 30, 2020
This book analyses the various ways counterinsurgency in Afghanistan is gendered. The book examines the US led war in Afghanistan from 2001 onwards, including the invasion, the population-centric counterinsurgency operations and the efforts to train a new Afghan military charged with ...
Women and Militant Wars: The politics of injury
1st Edition
By Swati Parashar
June 30, 2020
This book explores women’s militant activities in insurgent wars and seeks to understand what women ‘do’ in wars.In International Relations, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are essentially seen as wars where collective violence (against civilians and security ...
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
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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 ...