Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Editors’ Note xiii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. SECTION I. MILITARIZATION AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
7. Introduction 27
8. 1.1. The U.S. Imperial Triangle and Military Spending 29
9. 1.2. Farewell Address to the Nation, January 17, 1961 36
10. 1.3. The Militarization of Sports and the Redefinition of Patriotism 38
11. 1.4. Violence, Just in Time 42
12. 1.5. Women, Economy, War 51
13. SECTION II. MILITARY LABOR
14. Introduction 57
15. 2.1. Soldiering as Work 59
16. 2.2. Sexing the Globe 62
17. 2.3. Military Monks 67
18. 2.4. Child Soldiers after War 71
19. 2.5. Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire 73
20. 2.6. Corporate Warriors 76
21. SECTION III. GENDER AND MILITARISM
22. Introduction 83
23. 3.1. Gender in Transition 85
24. 3.2. The Compassionate Warrior 91
25. 3.3. Creating Citizens, Making Men 95
26. 3.4. One of the Guys 101
27. SECTION IV. THE EMOTIONAL LIFE OF MILITARISM
28. Introduction 109
29. 4.1. Militarization and the Madness of Everyday Life 111
30. 4.2. Fear as a Way of Life 118
31. 4.3. Evil, the Self, and Survival 127
32. 4.4. Target Audience: The Emotional Impact of U.S. Government Films on Nuclear Testing 130
33. SECTION V. RHETORICS OF MILITARISM
34. Introduction 141
35. 5.1. The Militarization of Cherry Blossoms 143
36. 5.2. The “Old West” in the Middle East 148
37. 5.3. Ideology, Culture, and the Cold War 154
38. 5.4. The Military Normal 157
39. 5.5. Nuclear Orientalism 163
40. SECTION VI. MILITARIZATION, PLACE, AND TERRITORY
41. Introduction 167
42. 6.1. Making War at Home 169
43. 6.2. Spillover 175
44. 6.3. Nuclear Landscapes 181
45. 6.4. The War on Terror, Dismantling, and the Construction of Place 186
46. 6.5. The Border Wall Is a Metaphor 192
47. SECTION VII. MILITARIZED HUMANITARIANISM
48. Introduction 197
49. 7.1. Laboratory of Intervention 199
50. 7.2. Armed for Humanity 203
51. 7.3. The Passions of Protection 208
52. 7.4. Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish? 212
53. 7.5. Utopias of Power 218
54. SECTION VIII. MILITARISM AND THE MEDIA
55. Introduction 223
56. 8.1. Pentagon Pundits 224
57. 8.2. Operation Hollywood 230
58. 8.3. Discipline and Publish 234
59. 8.4. The Enola Gay on Display 239
60. 8.5. War Porn 243
61. SECTION IX. MILITARIZING KNOWLEDGE
62. Introduction 249
63. 9.1. Boundary Displacement 251
64. 9.2. The Career of Cold War Psychology 254
65. 9.3. Scientific Colonialism 259
66. 9.4. Research in Foreign Areas 265
67. 9.5. Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education 270
68. SECTION X. MILITARIZATION AND THE BODY
69. Introduction 275
70. 10.1. Nuclear War, the Gulf War, and the Disappearing Body 276
71. 10.2. The Structure of War 283
72. 10.3. The Enhanced Warfighter 291
73. 10.4. Suffering Child 296
74. SECTION XI. MILITARISM AND TECHNOLOGY
75. Introduction 303
76. 11.1. Giving Up the Gun 305
77. 11.2. Life Underground: Building the American Bunker Society 307
78. 11.3. Militarizing Space 316
79. 11.4. Embodiment and Affect in a Digital Age 319
80. 11.5. Land Mines and Cluster Bombs 324
81. 11.6. Pledge of Non-Participation 328
82. 11.7. The Scientists’ Call to Ban Autonomous Lethal Robots 329
83. SECTION XII. ALTERNATIVES TO MILITARIZATION
84. Introduction 333
85. 12.1. War Is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity 336
86. 12.2. Reflections on the Possibility of a Nonkilling Society and a Nonkilling Anthropology 339
87. 12.3. U.S. Bases, Empire, and Global Response 344
88. 12.4. Down Here 347
89. 12.5. War, Culture, and Counterinsurgency 349
90. 12.6. Hope in the Dark 350
91. References 355
92. Contributors 383
93. Index 389
94. Credits 403