War, identity and the liberal state : everyday experiences of the geopolitical in the Armed Forces /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Series: | Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
- Glossary of military terminology and acronyms
- Basic rank structure of the British Armed Forces
- Introduction
- the geopolitics of the everyday in the Armed Forces
- "In the flesh": an introductory tale
- War, identity and the liberal state
- Researching the geopolitics of the everyday: an invitation to fieldwork
- Theorising the geopolitics of the everyday: from experience to performance
- Visualising intra-activity
- Outline of the book
- Materialising identity and the British warfare state
- British society must be defended
- Mind the gap
- Support the troops
- This green and pleasant land
- Securing the peace
- Welfare state, warfare state
- For Queen and country?
- A man's duty?
- Intimacies of war and gender: the politics of women's bodies in war
- Gender-in-the-making
- The biopolitics of gender and the war on terror
- "Just warriors" and "beautiful souls"
- Beautiful bodies
- Natural born killers?
- Sexy bodies
- Reproductive bodies
- Weak and leaky bodies
- Deploying beautiful souls
- The body resists
- Forbidden intimacies: rethinking military masculinities through heteronormativity and desire
- A brief history of sexuality in the British military
- Here and queer
- Heteronormativity and the limits of tolerance
- Heterosexual potency
- Military masculinities, homoeroticism and desire
- Military masculinities and the geopolitics of desire
- Imperial encounters and the structural privileging of whiteness
- Protectors of the realm
- Who are the "ethnics"?
- Political (in)correctness?
- "Martial races"
- The "War on Terror"
- Racisms
- old and new
- Concluding thoughts
- the march of progress?