ISBN:
9780415693936
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (369 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
War, Conflict and Ethics
Series Statement:
War, Conflict and Ethics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Civilians and Modern War : Armed Conflict and the Ideology of Violence
DDC:
305.9/0695
Keywords:
Civilians in war
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Civilians in war
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book explores the issue of civilian devastation in modern warfare, focusing on the complex processes that effectively establish civilians' identity in times of war. Underpinning the physicality of war's tumult are structural forces that create landscapes of civilian vulnerability. Such forces operate in four sectors of modern warfare: nationalistic ideology, state-sponsored militaries, global media, and international institutions. Each sector promotes its own constructions of civilian identity in relation to militant combatants: constructions that prove lethal to the civilian noncombatant
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Civilians and Modern War; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. The place and plight of civilians in modern war; Part I: Targeting civilians; 2. The role of civilians in American war ideology; 3. Devastating civilians at home: the plight of Crimean Tatars and Californians of Asian descent during World War; 4. Military culture and civilian victimization: the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II; 5. Double victims: the recruitment and treatment of child soldiers in Chechnya; Part II: Preserving civilian immunity
Description / Table of Contents:
6. The politics of civilian identity7. Israeli soldiers' perceptions of Palestinian civilians during the 2009 Gaza War; 8. Civilian vulnerability in asymmetric conflict: lessons from the Second Lebanon and Gaza Wars; 9. In the shadow of soldiers: faceless victims in public media narrative; 10. Civilians, pundits, and the mediatized ideology; Part III: Redressing anti-civilian; 11. Trans-regional military dimensions of civilian protection: a two-part problem with a two-part solution; 12. Civilians under the law: inequality, universalisms, and intersectionality as intervention
Description / Table of Contents:
13. The price of justice14. Preventing genocide: towards systematic engagement by states; 15. Making amends: a new expectation for civilian losses in armed conflict; 16. Conclusion: the road ahead; Name index; Subject index
Note:
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