Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. Introduction. Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics 1
7. 1. Basic Training 31
8. 2. The Political Aesthetics of the Body of the Soldier in Pain 54
9. 3. Svetlana Alexievich’s Soviet Women Veterans and the Aesthetics of the Disabled Military Body: Staring at the Unwomanly Face of War 74
10. 4. Breaking the Silence: Embodiment, Militarisation and Military Dissent in the Israel/Palestine Conflict 97
11. 5. Death Becomes Him: The Hypervisibility of Martyrdom and Invisibility of the Wounded in the Iconography of Lebanese Militarised Masculinities 121
12. 6. Ginger Cats and Cute Puppies: Animals, Affect and Militarisation in the Crisis in Ukraine 148
13. 7. Embodying War, Becoming Warriors: Media, Militarisation and the Case of Islamic State’s Online Propaganda 170
14. 8. The Defender Collection: Militarisation, Historical Mythology and the Everyday Affective Politics of Nationalist Fashion in Croatia 189
15. 9. Images of Insurgency: Reading the Cuban Revolution through Military Aesthetics and Embodiment 213
16. 10. Seize the Time!: Military Aesthetics, Symbolic Revolution and the Black Panther Party 242
17. Index 269