Making War on Bodies

Combines perspectives on aesthetics and embodiment to understand militarism in international politics

• Illustrates how processes of militarisation operate in the continuum between military institutions and everyday civilian life
• Case studies cover 20th- and 21st-century conflicts on four different continents: from the Middle East and post-socialist Europe to the USA, Britain, Australia and Cuba
• Offers diverse methodological examples including autoethnography, visual analysis, fashion history, and digital media research
• Integrates social identities including race, sexual orientation, gender identity and disability

This vibrant collection of essays reveals the intimate politics of how people with a wide range of relationships to war identify with, and against, the military and its gendered and racialised norms. It synthesises three recent turns in the study of international politics: aesthetics, embodiment and the everyday, into a new conceptual framework. This helps us to understand how militarism permeates society and how far its practices can be re-appropriated or even turned against it.

Contributors

• Catherine Baker, University of Hull, UK.
• Federica Caso, University of Queensland, Australia.
• Dan Evans, independent researcher, support worker and activist.
• Sorana Jude, Newcastle University, UK.
• Jennifer G. Mathers, Aberystwyth University, UK.
• Daniel Møller Ølgaard, Lund University, Sweden.
• Henri Myrttinen, Mauerpark Institute, Germany
• Amy Abugo Ongiri, Lawrence University, USA.
• Jane Tynan, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK.