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5.5. Nuclear Orientalism

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© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

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  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
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