War, identity and the liberal state : everyday experiences of the geopolitical in the Armed Forces /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Basham, Victoria
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
Subjects:
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?