Militarization: A Reader

Published by Duke University Press 2019

Militarization

A Reader

Edited by: Roberto J. González , Hugh Gusterson and Gustaaf Houtman

In the series Global Insecurities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007135

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Contents

About this book

Militarization: A Reader offers an anthropological perspective on militarization's origin and sustained presence as a cultural process in its full social, economic, political, cultural, environmental, and symbolic contexts throughout the world.

Author / Editor information

Roberto J. González is Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University and author of Militarizing Culture: Essays on the Warfare State.

Hugh Gusterson is Professor of International Affairs and Anthropology at George Washington University and author of Drone: Remote Control Warfare.

Gustaaf Houtman is editor of Anthropology Today at the Royal Anthropological Institute, London.

Reviews

“This wonderfully innovative, distinctive, and timely book has the additional value of taking an anthropological approach to militarism. Its editors have been among the key actors in crafting sharp and valuable critiques of the creeping militarization of their disciplines, particularly as practiced by U.S.-based scholars. This volume offers some of the most cogent explorations of the many-layered workings of militarism.”

-- Cynthia Enloe, author of Globalization and Militarism

“Militarism's reach extends far beyond the weapons and armed police and soldiers prowling our streets and deployed around the world, as its rhetoric normalizes violence and war. This deeply intersectional collection insists on the vantage point of militarism's victims, historically and today, while exposing those who profit from it. This volume provides an astonishingly comprehensive introduction to the globalized systems threatening not only individuals, but whole nations, peoples, and cultures, all captured by a profoundly militarized United States.”

-- Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies, author of Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror

“At just over 400 pages, including a very useful twenty-seven-page bibliography, [Militarization] reflects an enormous and dedicated effort. . . . The book offers us a path to think past our disciplinary fetishization of the lone wordsmith in knowledge production.”

-- Keith Brown Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“The editors bring a compelling and timely ethic of demilitarization to our discipline. . . . The volume’s strength is its comprehensive coverage and intersectional, multidisciplinary approach to militarization and its impacts.”

-- Leah Zani Anthropological Quarterly

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Editors’ Note Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction Roberto J. González and Hugh Gusterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
SECTION I. MILITARIZATION AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
Introduction Catherine Lutz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
1.1. The U.S. Imperial Triangle and Military Spending John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman and Robert W. McChesney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
1.2. Farewell Address to the Nation, January 17, 1961 Dwight D. Eisenhower Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
1.3. The Militarization of Sports and the Redefinition of Patriotism William Astore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
1.4. Violence, Just in Time War and Work in Contemporary West Africa Daniel Hoffman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
1.5. Women, Economy, War Carolyn Nordstrom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
SECTION II. MILITARY LABOR
Introduction Andrew Bickford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
2.1. Soldiering as Work The All-Volunteer Force in the United States Beth Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
2.2. Sexing the Globe Sealing Cheng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
2.3. Military Monks Michael Jerryson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
2.4. Child Soldiers after War Brandon Kohrt and Robert Koenig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
2.5. Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire Paul H. Kratoska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
2.6. Corporate Warriors The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry P. W. Singer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
SECTION III. GENDER AND MILITARISM
Introduction Katherine T. Mccaffrey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
3.1. Gender in Transition Common Sense, Women, and War Kimberly Theidon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
3.2. The Compassionate Warrior Wartime Sacrifice Jean Bethke Elshtain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
3.3. Creating Citizens, Making Men The Military and Masculinity in Bolivia Lesley Gill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
3.4. One of the Guys Military Women and the Argentine Army Máximo Badaró Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
SECTION IV. THE EMOTIONAL LIFE OF MILITARISM
Introduction Catherine Lutz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
4.1. Militarization and the Madness of Everyday Life Nancy Scheper-Hughes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
4.2. Fear as a Way of Life Linda Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
4.3. Evil, the Self, and Survival Robert Jay Lifton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
4.4. Target Audience: The Emotional Impact of U.S. Government Films on Nuclear Testing Joseph Masco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
SECTION V. RHETORICS OF MILITARISM
Introduction Andrew Bickford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
5.1. The Militarization of Cherry Blossoms Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
5.2. The “Old West” in the Middle East U.S. Military Metaphors in Real and Imagined Indian Country Stephen W. Silliman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
5.3. Ideology, Culture, and the Cold War Naoko Shibusawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
5.4. The Military Normal Feeling at Home with Counterinsurgency in the United States Catherine Lutz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
5.5. Nuclear Orientalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
SECTION VI. MILITARIZATION, PLACE, AND TERRITORY
Introduction Roberto J. González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
6.1. Making War at Home Catherine Lutz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
6.2. Spillover The U.S. Military’s Sociospatial Impact Mark L. Gillem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
6.3. Nuclear Landscapes The Marshall Islands and Its Radioactive Legacy Barbara Rose Johnston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
6.4. The War on Terror, Dismantling, and the Construction of Place An Ethnographic Perspective from Palestine Julie Peteet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
6.5. The Border Wall Is a Metaphor Jason De León Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
SECTION VII. MILITARIZED HUMANITARIANISM
Introduction C`atherine Besteman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
7.1. Laboratory of Intervention The Humanitarian Governance of the Postcommunist Balkan Territories Mariella Pandolfi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
7.2. Armed for Humanity Michael Barnett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
7.3. The Passions of Protection Sovereign Authority and Humanitarian War Anne Orford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
7.4. Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish? Mahmood Mamdani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
7.5. Utopias of Power From Human Security to the Responsibility to Protect Chowra Makaremi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
SECTION VIII. MILITARISM AND THE MEDIA
Introduction Hugh Gusterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
8.1. Pentagon Pundits David Barstow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
8.2. Operation Hollywood David L. Robb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
8.3. Discipline and Publish Mark Pedelty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
8.4. The Enola Gay on Display John Whittier Treat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
8.5. War Porn Hollywood and War, from World War II to American Sniper Peter Van Buren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
SECTION IX. MILITARIZING KNOWLEDGE
Introduction David H. Price Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
9.1. Boundary Displacement The State, the Foundations, and International and Area Studies during and after the Cold War Bruce Cumings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
9.2. The Career of Cold War Psychology Ellen Herman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
9.3. Scientific Colonialism Johan Galtung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
9.4. Research in Foreign Areas Ralph L. Beals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
9.5. Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education Henry A. Giroux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
SECTION X. MILITARIZATION AND THE BODY
Introduction Roberto J. González Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
10.1. Nuclear War, the Gulf War, and the Disappearing Body Hugh Gusterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
10.2. The Structure of War The Juxtaposition of Injured Bodies and Unanchored Issues Elaine Scarry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
10.3. The Enhanced Warfighter Kenneth Ford and Clark Glymour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
10.4. Suffering Child An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua James Quesada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
SECTION XI. MILITARISM AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduction Hugh Gusterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
11.1. Giving Up the Gun Japan’s Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 Noel Perrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
11.2. Life Underground: Building the American Bunker Society Joseph Masco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
11.3. Militarizing Space David H. Price Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
11.4. Embodiment and Affect in a Digital Age Understanding Mental Illness among Military Drone Personnel Alex Edney-Browne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
11.5. Land Mines and Cluster Bombs “Weapons of Mass Destruction in Slow Motion” H. Patricia Hynes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324
11.6. Pledge of Non-Participation Lisbeth Gronlund and David Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
11.7. The Scientists’ Call to Ban Autonomous Lethal Robots International Committee for Robot Arms Control Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	329
SECTION XII. ALTERNATIVES TO MILITARIZATION
Introduction David Vine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
12.1. War Is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity Margaret Mead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	336
12.2. Reflections on the Possibility of a Nonkilling Society and a Nonkilling Anthropology Leslie E. Sponsel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
12.3. U.S. Bases, Empire, and Global Response Catherine Lutz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344
12.4. Down Here Julian Aguon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
12.5. War, Culture, and Counterinsurgency Roberto J. González, Hugh Gusterson and David H. Price Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
12.6. Hope in the Dark Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities Rebecca Solnit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 424
Illustrations
- Other: 26 illustrations

eBook

Published: December 6, 2019
ISBN: 9781478007135