War, Citizenship, Territory

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Deborah Cowen, Emily Gilbert
Routledge, Mar 25, 2008 - History - 418 pages

For all too obvious reasons, war, empire, and military conflict have become extremely hot topics in the academy. Given the changing nature of war, one of the more promising areas of scholarly investigation has been the development of new theories of war and war’s impact on society. War, Citizenship, Territory features 19 chapters that look at the impact of war and militarism on citizenship, whether traditional territorially-bound national citizenship or "transnational" citizenship. Cowen and Gilbert argue that while there has been an explosion of work on citizenship and territory, Western academia’s avoidance of the immediate effects of war (among other things) has led them to ignore war, which they contend is both pervasive and well nigh permanent. This volume sets forth a new, geopolitically based theory of war’s transformative role on contemporary forms of citizenship and territoriality, and includes empirical chapters that offer global coverage.

 

Contents

The Politics of War Citizenship Territory
1966
STEPHEN GRAHAM
2001
Spaces of Exception and Unexceptionability
Bombs Bodies Acts The Banalization of Suicide
Panic Civility and the Homeland
STUART ELDEN
War Veterans Disability and Postcolonial Citizenship in Angola
Who Are the Victims? Where Is the Violence? The Spatial Dialectics
Conflict Citizenship and Human Security Geographies of Protection
Crossing in North America
NADIA ABUZAHRA
Nation and Gender in Jewish Israel
Mobilizing Civil Society for the Hegemonic State The Korean War
Not for Queen and Country or Any of That Shit Reflections
Afterword
Index

Unreliable Chinese Internal Security and the Devaluation and Expansion

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Deborah Cowen, Emily Gilbert